Clinical and microbiological characteristics of patients with septic arthritis: A hospital-based study

Abstract

In our hospital, septic arthritis is primarily acute, monoarticular, and monomicrobial; affects higher joints, is caused by S. aureus, and occurs in adult patients with underlying diseases. Outcome is good in most patients, although more than 25% of cases had articular sequels.

Pyogenic arthritis of native joints in non-intravenous drug users: A detailed analysis of 268 cases attended in a tertiary hospital over a 22-year period

“…The mortality rate in our series was consistent with recently published reports [5,7]. No mortality occurred among patients with axial involvement alone, and a bimodal pattern of mortality was found in patients with peripheral involvement.…”

“…Importantly, we only included patients with pyogenic infection of native joints; we excluded both patients with prosthetic joints and also IVDUs, who represented 13% of patients during the study period. These aspects should be borne in mind when comparing our results with earlier more heterogeneous reports [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] published over the last 2 decades ( Table 7). As expected, our findings support the assertion that pyogenic arthritis in drug addicts presents with particular features that require a different approach.…”

“…In the last years, several reported series [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] have analyzed the clinical and microbiological features of infectious arthritis and have increased our knowledge and understanding of this disease. Nevertheless, these are based on heterogeneous populations of patients with prosthetic joint infection [8,[10][11][12], arthritis due to non-pyogenic microorganisms [5,6,8,12], and arthritis without a bacteriological diagnosis [9,10,12].…”

“…Nevertheless, these are based on heterogeneous populations of patients with prosthetic joint infection [8,[10][11][12], arthritis due to non-pyogenic microorganisms [5,6,8,12], and arthritis without a bacteriological diagnosis [9,10,12]. Moreover, some reports [9,11,12] have failed to distinguish between IVDUs and non-drug users and others include a scarce number of patients [6,7]. As a result, certain clinical, diagnostic, and therapeutic issues are yet to be clarified.…”

Bilateral Septic Arthritis Resulting in Mortality in the Elderly: A Case Report

“…(1) It has an annual incidence of 7.8/100,000 person years in the US. (2) It is usually a mono-articular rather than poly-articular disease and in most cases mono-microbial (3,4). The commonest joint involved is the knee followed by the hips both in the young and elderly.…”