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What Is The Treatment For Infection After Knee Replacement?

I had total knee replacement 8/13/2012. I had an infection when staples weere removed and my knee came open wirh infection. I was a long painful process Since then I have had two episodes of minor infetion in same leg I recently had an indo bone can which saw infection on or near artificial knee . What can I expect from Dr Goytier?
posted on Sun, 13 Jul 2014
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It's very serious that you are suffering from infections after such a sophisticated operations. There may be problems with operation procedures or may be ignorance towards infection control measures or may be antibiotics were not taken properly by you or may be due to resistance to antibiotics.
your doctor must properly examine your knee with lab tests and serial x rays.
Please take advises about appropriate pain killers and antibiotics and after that proper physiotherapy.
Don't worry and take care...
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What Is The Treatment For Infection After Knee Replacement?

Hello Welcome to HCM It s very serious that you are suffering from infections after such a sophisticated operations. There may be problems with operation procedures or may be ignorance towards infection control measures or may be antibiotics were not taken properly by you or may be due to resistance to antibiotics. your doctor must properly examine your knee with lab tests and serial x rays. Please take advises about appropriate pain killers and antibiotics and after that proper physiotherapy. Don t worry and take care...