{"title":"A Comparison of Medical Drainage (Needle Aspiration) and Surgical Drainage (Arthrotomy or Arthroscopy) in the Initial Treatment of Infected Joints","authors":"Susan B. Broy, Frank R. Schmid","doi":"10.1016/S0307-742X(21)00562-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0307-742X(21)00562-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Acute infectious arthritis remains a clinical emergency where early diagnosis and appropriate therapy are essential to a successful outcome. The therapeutic requirements for a successful outcome include early diagnosis, appropriate antibiotics, joint mobilization and adequate drainage. The method of drainage can be medical with needle aspiration or surgical with arthroscopic or open surgical debridement. The literature review presented in this chapter supports the value of the initial use of medical therapy in the management of the acutely infected joint, with surgical drainage reserved for failure of medical management or for initial drainage of hip infections where needle aspiration is difficult.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77693,"journal":{"name":"Clinics in rheumatic diseases","volume":"12 2","pages":"Pages 501-522"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136940371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epidemic Polyarthritis and Ross River Virus Disease","authors":"J.R.E. Fraser","doi":"10.1016/S0307-742X(21)00556-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0307-742X(21)00556-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Ross River virus is a mosquito-transmitted alphavirus indigenous to Australia, Papua New Guinea and nearby islands, which recently appeared in other western and central South Pacific islands. Human infection can be manifest by varied constitutional disturbances, rash and rheumatic symptoms, known in Australia as epidemic polyarthritis and broadly similar to certain alphavirus diseases in other regions. Although usually short-lived, the rash can persist for 5 months. Rheumatic effects involve synovial joints, tendon and ligaments, and can continue or recur in peripheral joints and tissues as long as 6 years, though gradually improving without destructive changes. At different times, the disease can closely simulate rubella and other virus diseases, Henoch–Schönlein syndrome, rheumatoid and other chronic rheumatic diseases. Diagnosis rests upon geography, specific serology and judicious interpretation of clinical and supportive laboratory data. Skin and synovial lesions are characterized by infiltration of mononuclear cells. Their pathogenesis most likely depends on the reaction of these cells with persistent foci of virus disseminated during the early viraemic phase of infection.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77693,"journal":{"name":"Clinics in rheumatic diseases","volume":"12 2","pages":"Pages 369-388"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91977024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infections Associated with Prosthetic Joints","authors":"Barry D. Brause","doi":"10.1016/S0307-742X(21)00563-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0307-742X(21)00563-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77693,"journal":{"name":"Clinics in rheumatic diseases","volume":"12 2","pages":"Pages 523-536"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136940370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Problems associated with the infected total hip arthroplasty.","authors":"R H Fitzgerald","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77693,"journal":{"name":"Clinics in rheumatic diseases","volume":"12 2","pages":"537-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14664955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reactive Arthritis: A Viewpoint Rather than a Review","authors":"Denys K. Ford","doi":"10.1016/S0307-742X(21)00557-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0307-742X(21)00557-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77693,"journal":{"name":"Clinics in rheumatic diseases","volume":"12 2","pages":"Pages 389-401"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91977025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bacterial Infection of the Superficial Subcutaneous Bursae","authors":"George Ho Jr, Dennis J. Mikolich","doi":"10.1016/S0307-742X(21)00560-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0307-742X(21)00560-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77693,"journal":{"name":"Clinics in rheumatic diseases","volume":"12 2","pages":"Pages 437-457"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92035589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infections associated with prosthetic joints.","authors":"B D Brause","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77693,"journal":{"name":"Clinics in rheumatic diseases","volume":"12 2","pages":"523-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14664954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}