Scorpio single radius total knee arthroplasty. A minimal five-year follow-up multicentric study.

Purpose: Our goal was to evaluate the five-year follow-up results of the Scorpio single radius total knee arthroplasty.

Method: We performed a retrospective study based upon a multicentre database to evaluate the minimum five-year follow-up clinical and radiological results of 747 patients (831 knees) who underwent primary Scorpio single radius total knee arthroplasty.

Results: The mean age of the patients was 71.

Finegoldia magna: a forgotten pathogen in prosthetic joint infection rediscovered by molecular biology.

In this study, we describe 13 patients with prosthetic infections due to Finegoldia magna (2% of our tested series). Patients presented with either polymicrobial infection after an open fracture or nosocomial infection after recent prosthesis implantation. Molecular techniques are critical for diagnosis, and recommended antibiotic prophylaxis has poor activity against F.

Propionibacterium acnes postoperative shoulder arthritis: an emerging clinical entity.

The purpose of this study, which involved 276 patients, was to report the importance of Propionibacterium acnes in shoulder infections. The proportion of patients with shoulder infection who had infection due to P. acnes was significantly greater than the proportion of patients with lower limb infection who had infection due to P.