Septic arthritis kills 10–15% of patients, despite advances in medical treatment over the past 50 years. Is it time to revisit the question of whether, in addition to medical treatment ...

Older patients with a higher comorbidity burden who have nongonococcal bacterial knee septic arthritis are at greater risk ...

Infectious diseases contribute significantly to the disease burden in elderly people. Septic arthritis is an important cause of musculoskeletal infection with high morbidity and mortality arising ...

Joint pain, while common, shouldn't be ignored, especially when it becomes persistent. Although not all joint pain signals ...

Medically reviewed by Cara Beth Lee, MD Fact checked by Khara Scheppmann Swelling in the ankles and feet is a common problem.

The ailment, also known as septic arthritis, is a painful infection in a joint that can come from germs that travel through one’s bloodstream from another part of the body, according to the Mayo ...

But several orthopaedic doctors all said she did not have septic arthritis. Mrs Jones, a retired teacher from Valley, Anglesey, had a knee replacement in 2015, due to rheumatoid arthritis.

Most cases of osteomyelitis with or without adjacent septic arthritis heal with a total course of 20 days of clindamycin or a first-generation cephalosporin, with the aforementioned conditions ...

Cellus Inc. has disclosed compounds acting as disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin motifs 4 (ADAMTS4; aggrecanase-1) and 5 (ADAMTS5; aggrecanase-2) inhibitors reported to be useful ...