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Today, peri-prosthetic septic complications are considered rare (between 1–2% of joint arthroplasties) due to the improvement of prophylactic measures and techniques developed in orthopaedic surgery in the recent years, which have enabled to control infections. However, these are particularly negative in terms of the patients’ outcome due to the high morbidity and the considerable medical costs related to their management. In the event of infection, two operations are often required after the original one to try to eradicate it and in many cases the treatment is not successful, having to sacrifice the prosthesis itself and leaving the patient heavily disabled in his movements. In the United States it was estimated that a minimum cost of 50,000 $ would be required for the treatment of each single patient, with an annual cost of 250 million $ [11, 18].
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Gallazzi, M.B., Chiapparino, R., Garbagna, P.G. (2007). Early Radiological Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis of Infection in Orthopaedic Surgery. In: Meani, E., Romanò, C., Crosby, L., Hofmann, G., Calonego, G. (eds) Infection and Local Treatment in Orthopedic Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-47999-4_3
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