title: Intermittent negative pressure wound therapy with instillation for the treatment of persistent periprosthetic hip infections: a report of two cases.
abstract: Intermittent negative pressure wound therapy with instillation (NPWTi) is starting to be used successfully to treat early periprosthetic infections of endoprostheses. However, few articles have reported the outcome of treatment with intermittent NPWTi for late persistent periprosthetic infections of the hip. In this study, we report two cases who underwent several rounds of radical wound debridement for the treatment of a late persistent periprosthetic infection of the hip. Intermittent NPWTi was used in both cases. Patients were treated successfully and there was no recurrence after 3 and 1 years of follow-up, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Bingöl State Hospital, Bingöl, Turkey.
authors.forename: Mehmet Salih
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Söylemez
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Korhan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Özkan
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Orthopaedic Surgery Clinic, Istanbul Gelişim University, Tekirdağ, Turkey.
authors.forename: Bülent
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kılıç
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Göztepe Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Samet
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Erinç
keywords: hip; negative pressure; periprosthetic infection; vacuum-assisted