ESSKA and EBJIS recommendations for the management of infections after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACL‐R): prevention, surgical treatment and rehabilitation

• DOI: 10.1007/s00167-023-07463-3
• Publication Date: 2023-05-27T08:02:02Z
• Authors: Daniel Pérez‐Prieto; Trifon Totlis; Tomislav Madjarevic; Roland Becker; Christen Ravn; Juan C. Monllau; Nora Renz
• Keywords: Reoperation; Arthritis, Infectious; Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction; Knee Joint; Prevention; Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries; 610 Medicine & health; 3. Good health; Management; Arthroscopy; BIOMEDICINA I ZDRAVSTVO. Kliničke medicinske znanosti. Ortopedija.; Debridement; Infection after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Humans; Knee; BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE. Clinical Medical Sciences. Orthopedics.; Systematic Reviews as Topic

Infection after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACL-R) is a rare but severe complication. Despite an increase in articles published on this topic over the last decade, solid data to optimized diagnostic and therapeutic measures are scarce. For reason, European Bone Joint Society (EBJIS) for Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery Arthroscopy (ESSKA) collaborated order develop recommendations diagnosis management of infections ACL-R. The aim workgroup was perform review literature provide practical guidance healthcare professionals involved ACL-R.An international recruited predefined clinical dilemmas regarding MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Library Scopus databases were searched evidence support recommended answers each dilemma.The divided into two articles. first covers etiology, prevention, antimicrobial treatment septic arthritis following ACL-R primarily aimed at infectious disease specialists. This article includes second part prevention ACL-R, surgical subsequent postoperative rehabilitation. It not only orthopedic surgeons, all dealing with patients suffering from ACL-R.These guide clinicians achieving timely accurate as well providing optimal management, both which paramount prevent loss function other devastating sequelae infection knee joint.V.