FRONTIERS IN MEDICAL CASE REPORTS - Volume 2; Issue 3, (May-Jun, 2021)

Pages: 1-06

Right Knee Chronic Prosthetic Arthritis Due to Tropheryma whippelii: A Case Report

Díaz-Cañestro M, Camprodón A, Vidal-Lampurdanes M, Ramos-Asensio R, Riera M, Murillas J

Category: Surgical Case Reports

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Abstract:

We present the case of a patient with right knee prosthetic arthritis due to Tropheryma whippelii in a 53-year-old man without other data of systemic involvement. The diagnosis was made by molecular microbiology techniques (bacterial identification by sequencing the 16S rRNA). This case was managed with prosthetic replacement in two times and systemic antibiotic therapy.

Keywords: Prosthesis, Arthritis, Chronic, Knee, Tropheryma Whippelii

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DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.47746/FMCR.2021.2305