While diabetic total hip arthroplasty (THA) patients are associated with higher levels of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI), does that, therefore, imply that non-diabetic patients with elevated glucose levels are also at higher risk of PJI?
A research team from the University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine designed a 90,830-patient study to answer that question. Their work, “Higher Blood Glucose Levels on the Day of Surgery Are Associated with an Increased Risk of Periprosthetic Joint Infection After Total Hip Arthroplasty,” appears in the December 21, 2023 edition of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery… Continue reading.