Arch Bone Jt Surg. 2017 Jan; 5(1): 70–72.

Loosening of Total Knee Arthroplasty after Brucellosis Infection: A Case Report

Mohammad Ali Sazegari, MD, Fateme Bahramian, MSc, Fateme Mirzaee, MSc, Zohreh Zafarani, MD, and Hamidreza Aslani, MD

Knee

In this report we describe a 78-year-old man whose total knee arthroplasty showed the symptoms of infection with brucella with radiographic signs of loosening 5 years after the index surgery. The patient was treated successfully after a 2-stage revision arthroplasty surgery along with using rifampicin and doxycycline for 8 weeks.

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