Study Status: Recruiting
Recruit Status: Recruiting
Study Type: Observational
Official Title: Quality of Life Assessment in Patients Undergoing Prolonged Suppressive Antibiotherapy for Prosthetic Joint Infection.
Brief Summary:
Prosthetic joint infection (PJI) management is complex and requires prosthesis replacement when symptoms duration is greater than 30 days or debridement with modular set replacement when symptoms duration is lesser than one month. Nevertheless, the prolonged suppressive antibiotherapy (PSA) is the single treatment we can provide to high risk surgical patients and those who refuse reoperation.
There is limited data available on PSA modality, its tolerance and efficacy, this lack of data motivated us to concept a prospective study of long term patient follow up with PJI treated with prolonged suppressive antibiotherapy.