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Chronic and Severe Prosthetic Joint Infection Complicated by Amyloid A Amyloidosis With Renal and Bladder Impairment

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source: BMJ Case Reports

year: 2018

authors: Benech N, Lustig S, Chidiac C, Ferry T

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A 66-year-old woman presented with renal failure and purulent discharge associated with a chronic prosthetic joint infection (PJI) of the left knee. Her medical history consisted of an untreated chronic hepatitis B and recurrent giant-cell tumour of bone revealed by spontaneous fractures 20 years previously. Multiple tumour resections led to knee prosthesis implantation in 1992 with no tumour relapse thereafter.
 
The patient experienced a methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus chronic PJI in the following months that required two-stage prosthesis replacement and a prolonged antibiotherapy. A clinical suspicion of superinfection was confirmed in 2002 by a puncture of the synovial fluid that found a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis. The patient declined both surgical and medical treatment and was lost to follow-up.
 
organization: Hospices Civils de Lyon, France; Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France

DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2017-223491

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