A Pilot Study Using a Standardized Method of Measuring Distress Demonstrates Higher Levels in Septic Revisions.

Background: Combined Orthopaedic Infectious Disease Clinics facilitate care for prosthetic joint infection (PJI) patients similar to multidisciplinary care in cancer centers. The National Comprehensive Cancer Network developed a standardized distress thermometer (DT) to measure distress in cancer patients. We propose using this tool to assess distress in PJI patients.

An older male with an unusual presentation of disseminated coccidioidomycosis.

Coccidioidomycosis is a fungal disease endemic to the southwestern United States and other areas in the Western Hemisphere. Infection is usually acquired through inhalation. While infection is most often asymptomatic, early respiratory illness and infrequently extrapulmonary dissemination may occur.