The Global Search for Better Care of Periprosthetic Joint Infection
Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) has five-year mortality rates between 15% and 25%. That\'s higher than the rates for early-stage breast and prostate cancers and similar to the rates for colorectal and blood cancers. For more than a decade, the orthopaedic surgery community has been exploring new surgical and antibiotic therapies to address PJI, but patient outcomes haven’t improved much.
Source: ConsultQD - Cleveland Clinic