Patient 43 is a 63 year-old female with MRSA prosthetic joint infection of right hip and knee. In July 2020, the knee underwent a 2-stage revision for a MRSA infection which failed. This was followed by a 2-stage revision of the right hip in Sep2020. Both were performed without exchange. In Jan2021, she received hip […]
Staphylococcus aureus
Case 43
Case 27
Patient #27, a 61-year-old woman with several medical conditions including diabetes, sarcoidosis, VID, neuropathy, and many drug allergies and intolerances. She has struggled with recurring ear infections since 2004 and has had chronic issues with her right year. Since 2004 she has had over 10 ear surgeries for debridement and over 10 sinus surgeries to […]
Case 28
Patient #28 is a 58-year-old-man who has undergone two separate two-stage exchange arthroplasties for his right hip periprosthetic infection. He has undergone multiple rounds of intravenous antibiotics and oral suppressive antibiotics as well. He has developed another abscess and draining wound about his right hip. Prior to his hip surgery, he was a young, active […]
Case 26
Patient #26, a 60-year-old man with multiple medical comorbidities including a thoracic aortic aneurysm, atrial fibrillation status post ablation, gastric bypass surgery 2014 complicated by postop gastric sleeve strictures requiring stenting, history of DVT, and multiple joint arthroplasties including bilateral total knee arthroplasty, total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total shoulder arthroplasty. He underwent primary left […]
Case 24
Patient #24, a 39-year-old female with giant cell tumor of the right distal femur treated with distal femur replacement in 2016. She developed arthrofibrosis and underwent revision in December, 2018 and developed an methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) infection which necessitated debridement, antibiotics and implant retention (DAIR) in January, 2019. She received multiple antibiotics due […]
Case 18
Patient #18, a 71-year-old male with a morbid obesity (BMI 41) and hyperlipidemia presented with a chronic MRSA PJI. Twenty years prior he had a methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) septic arthritis and intraosseous abscess of his right knee that was treated with intravenous (IV) cefazolin. One year later, he fractured his distal right femur, […]
Case 17
Patient # 17 is a 61-year-old female with a chronic, persistently infected right prosthetic knee joint infection with methicillin-sensitive S. aureus (MSSA) present since Dec 2017. It remained infected with draining sinuses despite multiple rounds of IV antibiotics and surgeries. She received two weeks of phage therapy IV twice a day provided by another company […]