Diagnostic cutoff values of synovial fluid biomarkers for acute postoperative prosthetic joint infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Sabater-Martos, Marta; Ferrer, Marc; Morata, Laura; Soriano, Alex; Martínez-Pastor, Juan Carlos

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/jbji-9-17-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/jbji-9-17-2024

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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

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29 Jan 2024

Original full-length article |

| 29 Jan 2024

Diagnostic cutoff values of synovial fluid biomarkers for acute postoperative prosthetic joint infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Marta Sabater-Martos, Marc Ferrer, Laura Morata, Alex Soriano, and Juan Carlos Martínez-Pastor

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https://doi.org/10.5194/jbji-9-17-2024-supplement

Data sets

Cutoff Values for Synovial Fluid Biomarkers for the Diagnosis of Acute Postoperative Prosthetic Joint Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Protocol M. Sabater-Martos et al. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/9P6C7

Short summary

This is a meta-analysis of six studies describing the cutoff values of white blood cell count and polymorphonuclear percentage in synovial fluid for the diagnosis of acute postoperative peri-prosthetic joint infection (PJI).
We found that both the WBC count and PMN percentage are good markers for diagnosis of acute postoperative PJI. However, the synovial WBC count is more powerful in diagnosing acute postoperative PJI.