Infection involving a prosthetic joint implant, a major arthroplasty complication.
PJI is infection at or around a joint replacement, ranging from early postoperative infection to delayed hematogenous seeding, and is a key safety outcome tracked in arthroplasty studies. It is usually reported as a proportion of procedures, which makes small case series prone to wide, unstable estimates.
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