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Table 5 Clinical outcome of 75 patient with enterococcal PJI

From: Enterococcal periprosthetic joint infection: clinical and microbiological findings from an 8-year retrospective cohort study

Outcome

All episodes

(n = 66)

Monomicrobial

(n = 33)

Polymicrobial

(n = 33)

P value

Median follow-up (range) – months

31.8 (0.3–83.8)

25.9 (1.4–78.6)

33.8 (0.3–83.8)

0.138

Clinical success

45 (68)

22 (66)

23 (70)

1.000

Clinical failurea

21 (31)

11 (33)

10 (30)

 

 Isolation of another or no pathogen

11

5

6

 

 Treatment failureb

10

6

4

 

Treatment success

56 (85)

27 (82)

29 (88)

0.752

  1. Data are no. (%) of patients, unless otherwise indicated. Where the denominator is shown, data was not available for all patients
  2. a6 patients died, 2 death were associated with the enterococcal PJI (treatment failure), 1 death was related to a new infection caused by staphylococci in the later course (clinical failure) and 3 patients died from a non-infectious cause (1 tumor, 2 pulmonary embolism) and were considered infection-free at the time of death
  3. bPersistent infection or relapse with same Enterococcus spp. as initially isolated