Preservation of hip prosthesis with local surgical revision and creation of a fistula persistens : an option for palliative treatment of periprosthetic infection in old, polymorbid patients?
Restricting the indication to old, polymorbid patients, preservation of the arthroplasty in combination with local surgical debridement, permanent fistula and long-term systemic administration of antibiotics seems to be an alternative to explantation of the prosthesis with consecutive revision arthroplasty or resection arthroplasty.
In nude rat GBR calvaria model, transplantation of hEPC significantly enhanced vasculogenesis and osteogenesis.