Journal of Bone and Joint Infection
Journal of Bone and Joint Infection
JBJI
Articles | Volume 11, issue 3
Articles | Volume 11, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/jbji-11-315-2026
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https://doi.org/10.5194/jbji-11-315-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 11, issue 3
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03 Jun 2026
Original full-length article |  | 03 Jun 2026

Tapping our resources: do preoperative aspirations add diagnostic value in hip and knee periprosthetic joint infection?

Anne Spichler-Moffarah, Lauren Daddi, Ilda Molloy, Tyler Luu, Duc Nguyen, and Marjorie Golden

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This is a study that included our daily practice with a cohort of patients with prosthetic joint infection (PJI) of the knee or hip, that had admissions with concern for PJI, and had surgery for that. Synovial aspiration and cultures were compared with intraoperative culture results. Our concordance rate (yielding the same organism(s) or if both were negative) between synovial and intraoperative cultures was almost 75 %, with low frequency of culture-negative and few polymicrobial PJI.  
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