Two-stage Revision for Salmonella-infected Total Hip Replacement, Complicated by a Periprosthetic Fracture
Bibliographic record
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Salmonella-infected prosthetic joint infection is rare. We report a patient who developed an infected total hip replacement with Salmonella Typhimurium. CASE REPORT: A 65-year-old patient presented with atraumatic groin pain and raised inflammatory markers following gastroenteritis. After a decade of conservative management using suppression antibiotics, she underwent a two-stage revision. Her case was further complicated as she fell before her second-stage sustaining a Vancouver C periprosthetic fracture. Once her infection cleared, a complex second-stage revision was performed using components to include reconstruction of the acetabulum with trabecular metal augments and buttresses, a trabecular metal acetabular revision system component and an endoprosthetic replacement of the upper two-thirds of the femur. Approximately 12 months on, the patient is now mobilizing, pain free. CONCLUSION: This case emphasizes the need for a good diagnostic work-up and management process, surgical planning and technique, and highlights the importance of a multidisciplinary team involvement in improving outcomes for patients.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".