GRAPEVINE, Texas — One-stage and two-stage exchange for treatment of periprosthetic joint infection had similar success rates at 1 year, according to interim results presented here.
“While these results are encouraging about one-stage treatment, the caveat is this is 1-year follow-up only,” Thomas K. Fehring, MD, said during his presentation at the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons Annual Meeting.
Fehring et al. randomly assigned 321 patients chronically infected with primary hip or knee arthroplasties, to either one stage (n=164), or two stages
