Retrospective Cohort Study
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World J Orthop. Oct 18, 2022; 13(10): 903-910
Published online Oct 18, 2022. doi: 10.5312/wjo.v13.i10.903
Preoperative and postoperative risk factors for periprosthetic joint infection in primary total hip arthroplasty: A 1-year experience
Giuseppe Ferdinando Tella, Cesare Donadono, Francesco Castagnini, Barbara Bordini, Monica Cosentino, Michele Di Liddo, Francesco Traina
Giuseppe Ferdinando Tella, Cesare Donadono, Francesco Castagnini, Michele Di Liddo, Francesco Traina, Ortopedia-Traumatologia e Chirurgia protesica e dei reimpianti d'anca e di ginocchio, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna 40125, Italy
Barbara Bordini, Monica Cosentino, Laboratorio di Tecnologia Medica, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna 40125, Italy
Author contributions: Tella GF, Donadono C, Castagnini F, Bordini B, Cosentino M, Di Liddo M, and Traina F contributed equally to all aspects of this work.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Comitato Etico di Area Vasta Emilia Centro della Regione Emilia-Romagna (CE-AVEC), Approval No. 0005172.
Informed consent statement: Informed written consent was obtained from the patient.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors report no relevant conflict of interest for this article.
Data sharing statement: Technical appendix, statistical code, and dataset available from the corresponding author at c.donadono@gmail.com. Consent was not supposed to be obtained because of the characteristics of the study and the impossibility to contact the patient but by the way the presented data are anonymized and risk of identification is low.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement—checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement—checklist of items.
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Corresponding author: Cesare Donadono, MD, Doctor, Ortopedia-Traumatologia e Chirurgia protesica e dei reimpianti d'anca e di ginocchio, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Via Cesare Pupilli 1, Bologna 40125, Italy. c.donadono@gmail.com
Received: December 24, 2021
Peer-review started: December 24, 2021
First decision: February 15, 2022
Revised: February 27, 2022
Accepted: September 9, 2022
Article in press: September 9, 2022
Published online: October 18, 2022
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Core Tip

Core Tip: In this study, we evaluated the incidence of periprosthetic joint infection in all interventions occurring in the year 2016 at our department at IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli. We reviewed all operated patients to look for predictive signs of potential infection to explore methodological approaches that could better inform daily orthopedic practice. We reviewed the duration and time of surgery, presence, type and duration of antibiotic therapy, preoperative diagnosis, some blood values before and after surgery, transfusions, the presence of preoperative drugs, and the presence of some comorbidities.