The change in plasma D-dimer does not help to guide the timing of reimplantation in two stage exchange for periprosthetic joint infection

D-dimer has been included in the criteria by the Musculoskeletal Infection Society in 2018 as a novel parameter to diagnose prosthetic joint infection (PJI). However, it is unclear how D-dimer levels change in between stages of a two-stage exchange. We prospectively investigated 30 patients who unde...

Verfasser: Ackmann, Thomas
Schwarze, Jan
Gosheger, Georg
Schmidt-Bräkling, Tom
Schneider, Kristian Nikolaus
Dieckmann, Ralf
Klingebiel, Sebastian
Möllenbeck, Burkhard H. M.
Theil, Jan-Christoph
FB/Einrichtung:FB 05: Medizinische Fakultät
Dokumenttypen:Artikel
Medientypen:Text
Erscheinungsdatum:2021
Publikation in MIAMI:25.10.2022
Datum der letzten Änderung:25.10.2022
Angaben zur Ausgabe:[Electronic ed.]
Quelle:Scientific Reports 11 (2021) 7323, 1-6
Schlagwörter:Biomarkers; Diagnostic markers
Fachgebiet (DDC):610: Medizin und Gesundheit
Lizenz:CC BY 4.0
Sprache:English
Förderung:Finanziert über die DEAL-Vereinbarung mit Wiley 2019-2022.
Format:PDF-Dokument
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-82039732830
Weitere Identifikatoren:DOI: 10.17879/32049570554
Permalink:https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-82039732830
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D-dimer has been included in the criteria by the Musculoskeletal Infection Society in 2018 as a novel parameter to diagnose prosthetic joint infection (PJI). However, it is unclear how D-dimer levels change in between stages of a two-stage exchange. We prospectively investigated 30 patients who underwent a two-stage exchange using a spacer for PJI. D-Dimer, CRP and IL-6 were collected before first and second stage surgery and the difference (Δ) in between stages was calculated. The levels of plasma D-Dimer did not change from first to second stage surgery (2770 ng/ml (IQR, 1600–3770 ng/ml) versus 2340 ng/ml (IQR, 1270–4100 ng/ml); p = 0.8) while CRP (4.0 mg/dl (IQR, 1.7–5.5 mg/dl) versus 0.6 mg/dl (IQR, 0.5–0.8 mg/dl); p