Does the Post-Operative Infectious Risk increase in Patients Previously Treated with Intra-Articular Injections

Picarelli G, Di Munno O, Tarantino U, Iolascon G and Migliore A
Additional contact information
Di Munno O: Fatebenefratelli Unit of Rheumatology, San Pietro Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Italy
Tarantino U: Rheumatology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Italy
Iolascon G: Department of Orthopaedics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Migliore A: Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties and Dentistry, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli†, Italy

Orthopedics and Rheumatology Open Access Journals, 2019, vol. 14, issue 3, 73-77

Abstract: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a leading cause of pain and disability worldwide. OA affects 240 million people globally and is becoming an increasing problem with the rates of total knee and hip arthroplasty rising globally. Intra-articular corticosteroid and viscosupplementation injections have become a widespread therapy in conservative management in the treatment of OA. Specifically, injections can be helpful in clinical practice for patients with initial or moderate OA and when end stage OA patients are not willing or able to undergo an arthroplasty in the short term. Regarding viscosupplementation, there is a lack of agreement between national and international guidelines on the use of intra-articular hyaluronic acid for medical management of symptomatic OA.

Keywords: journal of orthopaedics; orthopaedics journals impact factor; orthopaedics articles impact factor; scholarly publishing orthopedics journals; juniper publishers opena ccess orthopedics journal; Rheumatology; rheumatology journals impact factor 2018; rheumatology journals impact factor; rheumatology open access journals; juniper publishers review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://juniperpublishers.com/oroaj/pdf/OROAJ.MS.ID.555889.pdf (application/pdf)
https://juniperpublishers.com/oroaj/OROAJ.MS.ID.555889.php (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:adp:joroaj:v:14:y:2019:i:3:p:73-77

DOI: 10.19080/OROAJ.2019.14.555889

Access Statistics for this article

Orthopedics and Rheumatology Open Access Journals is currently edited by Sophia Mathis

More articles in Orthopedics and Rheumatology Open Access Journals from Juniper Publishers Inc.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Robert Thomas ().