Implant retention after acute and hematogenous periprosthetic hip and knee infections: Whom, when and how?

Table 1 Reported success rates of irrigation and debridement for treating periprosthetic infections of the hip and the knee

Ref.	Patients	Success rate for PJI of the hip	Success rate for PJI of the knee	Cumulative success rate
Aboltins et al[28]	13	92%	85.70%	90%
Azzam et al[29]	53	47.83%	45.30%	44.60%
Barberán et al[26]	32	71.90%	57.20%	65%
Bradbury et al[52]	19	-	16%	-
Brandt et al[30]	7	28.60%	38.50%	36.40%
Buller et al[40]	62	56.50%	50.60%	51.80%
Burger et al[49]	39	-	17.90%	-
Byren et al[21]	52	86.50%	74.50%	80.60%
Chiu et al[51]	40	-	30%	-
Choi et al[31]	92	50%	-	-
Choong et al[32]	14	78.60%	-	-
Cierny et al[48]	43	-	-	66%
Crockarell et al[44]	42	14%	-	-
Engesæter et al[46]	180	76%	-	-
Estes et al[37]	20	100%	87.50%	90%
Fehring et al[43]	86	37.50%	37%	37.20%
Gardner et al[50]	44	-	43.20%	-
Geurts et al[45]	69	82.60%	85%	83.10%
Klouche et al[63]	12	75%	-	-
Konigsberg et al[33]	20	80%	77.30%	78.50%
Koyonos et al[41]	60	30%	38.50%	35%
Kuiper et al[42]	62	61.30%	75.90%	66%
Marculescu et al[56]	91	-	-	60%
Martel-Lafarrière et al[59]	34	-	-	60%
Martínez-Pastor et al[34]	15	73.30%	75%	74.50%
Meehan et al[35]	19	66.70%	100%	89.55%
Mont et al[53]	24	-	83.30%	-
Peel et al[60]	43	71.40%	93%	79.10%
Rasouli et al[38]	10	83.30%	0%	50%
Segawa et al[55]	28	-	78%	-
Sukeik et al[36]	26	77%	-	-
Tattevin et al[57]	69	-	-	38.20%
Teeny et al[54]	21	-	29%	-
Triantafyllopoulos et al[47]	78	-	55.10%	-
Triantafyllopoulos et al[24]	60	70%	-	-
Tsukayama et al[16]	106	70.30%	-	-
Van Kleunen et al[61]	13	-	-	61.50%
Vilchez et al[27]	18	88.90%	68.60%	75.50%
Westberg et al[25]	38	71%	-	-
Zürcher-Pfund et al[20]	21	-	33%	-

PJI: Periprosthetic joint infection.