One-stage exchange may be noninferior to two-stage exchange for chronic PJI

A one-stage approach to treat patients with periprosthetic joint infections after primary total knee and hip arthroplasty offers noninferior outcomes to two-stage treatment, according to recently published results.“The caveat here is that you have to follow a very specific protocol,” Thomas Fehring, MD, a hip and knee surgeon at OrthoCarolina Hip and Knee Center, told Healio.