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SUBMITTER: Yeung CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6920726 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yeung Caleb M CM Lichstein Paul M PM Maguire James H JH Lange Jeffrey K JK Estok Daniel M DM
Arthroplasty today 20190920 4
A 61-year-old woman with a right total knee arthroplasty presented with 1 week of atraumatic right knee swelling, pain, and fevers 2 weeks following a routine screening colonoscopy. Aspiration was concerning for prosthetic joint infection and she underwent definitive treatment with irrigation and debridement with polyethylene exchange followed by a 6-week course of oral metronidazole. Cultures speciated as Bacteroides fragilis with the presumed source being the colonoscopy causing transient bact ...[more]