Does the use of topical vancomycin during primary hip or knee arthroplasty protect from infections?

Background: Infection is one of the main complications of hip and knee arthroplasties. Topical application vancomycin to prevent postoperative infections is efficient in spine surgery, and is spreading in prosthetic surgery. However, its clinical relevance and safety are still under debate.

Clinical features and treatment outcomes of bone and joint nontuberculous mycobacterial infections according to immune status: a 9-year retrospective observational cohort.

Objectives: Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) bone and joint infections (BJIs) are uncommon. We evaluated the characteristics of BJIs and identified differences according to immune status.

Methods: We performed a multicenter retrospective study in France involving patients with documented NTM BJI over a 9-year period.

Ultrasonography performed by an infectiologist in hip and knee prosthetic joint and native joint infections.

Introduction: Clinical ultrasonography (US) by infectiologists has only recently been developing, and as now there is little literature on the subject. Our study focuses on the conditions and diagnostic performance of clinical ultrasound imaging by infectiologists in cases of hip and knee prosthetic and native joint infection.

Methods: A retrospective study carried out between June 1st 2019 and March 31st 2021 in the University Hospital of Bordeaux, South-Western France.