Delayed implants sepsis in HIV-positive patients following open fractures treated with orthopaedic implants

Injury

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 590-594

  Phaff, Martijn ^a   Aird, James ^b   Rollinson, P D ^c  

^a INKOSI ALBERT LUTHULI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (South Africa)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c Ngwelezana Hospital   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Delayed infection; H.I.V.; Open fractures; Orthopaedic implants

Indexed keywords

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE REMOVAL; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FIBULA FRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; FOREARM FRACTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMERUS FRACTURE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPEN FRACTURE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS MATERIAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; PSEUDARTHROSIS; SEPSIS; SEROCONVERSION; TELECONSULTATION; TIBIA FRACTURE; YOUNG ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COMPLICATION; CONTRAINDICATIONS; FRACTURES, BONE; IMMUNOCOMPROMIZED PATIENT; IMMUNOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; TIME;

DEVICE REMOVAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, BONE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SEPSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84925088783     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2015.01.001     Document Type: Article

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