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Total Knee Periprosthetic Joint Infection in the Setting of Hematologic Malignancy: Considerations for Management.


ABSTRACT: Patients with malignancy are often profoundly immunocompromised due to chemotherapy, placing them at potential increased risk for periprosthetic joint infection (PJI). However, there is little information regarding PJI management in these patients. We describe 4 patients with a history of primary total knee arthroplasty followed by diagnosis of multiple myeloma or Waldenström macroglobulinemia who received chemotherapy within 4 months prior to PJI. The Musculoskeletal Infection Society major and minor criteria and either debridement, antibiotics, and implant retention or a 2-stage approach appear to be effective for acute or chronic PJI, respectively. We recommend an anticoagulant be administered concomitantly with antineoplastics that significantly increase deep vein thrombosis risk, and we recommend long-term oral suppressive antibiotics postoperatively, especially if chemotherapy will be resumed. Additional studies are needed to investigate risks and benefits of PJI prophylaxis during chemotherapy and long-term suppressive antibiotics after PJI treatment.

SUBMITTER: Bloom GB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7267679 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Total Knee Periprosthetic Joint Infection in the Setting of Hematologic Malignancy: Considerations for Management.

Bloom G Barnes GB   Mears Simon C SC   Edwards Paul K PK   Barnes C Lowry CL   Stambough Jeffrey B JB  

Arthroplasty today 20200602 3


Patients with malignancy are often profoundly immunocompromised due to chemotherapy, placing them at potential increased risk for periprosthetic joint infection (PJI). However, there is little information regarding PJI management in these patients. We describe 4 patients with a history of primary total knee arthroplasty followed by diagnosis of multiple myeloma or Waldenström macroglobulinemia who received chemotherapy within 4 months prior to PJI. The Musculoskeletal Infection Society major and  ...[more]

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