• Chrysoula Argyrou, Eftychios Papagrigorakis, Dimitrios Tzefronis, Vaia Pliaka, Christos Fotis, Spyros Kamariotis, Maria Chatzinikolaidou, Konstantinos Tsiamtsouris, Elias S Vasiliadis, Leonidas Alexopoulos, and George A Macheras.
• 4th Department of Orthopaedics, KAT Attica General Hospital, Athens, Greece. Electronic address: chrisa.a@hotmail.com.
• Injury. 2024 Aug 1; 55 (8): 111659111659.

IntroductionPeriprosthetic joint infections (PJIs) are a devastating complication of total hip (THA) and knee (TKA) arthroplasty. The use of novel techniques like multiplex cytokine analysis could contribute immensely to the identification of potential novel biomarkers.Patients And MethodsThis is a single-centre study of patients that were treated with revision TKA, THA or hemiarthroplasty. Serum's white blood cells (WBCs), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and C-reactive protein (CRP) and synovial fluid's WBCs, percentage of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (%PMNs) and CRP were measured. Proteomic analysis targeting the secreted cytokines in synovial fluid was conducted using a 73-plex assay panel. The results were statistically compared between the septic and aseptic cases and ROC analysis to establish the area under the curve (AUC), sensitivity and specificity of each biomarker.ResultsThe study included 30 patients (18 revision THA cases; 3 conversion of hemiarthroplasty to THA and 9 revision TKA cases); 14 cases were considered infected, 1 likely infected and 15 not infected. The results showed statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) between infected and not infected cases in serum's ESR, CRP and synovial fluid's%PMNs, growth-regulated oncogene alpha (GROA), interleukin-8, interleukin-5, S100-A8/calprotectin and resistin (RETN) with AUCs of 0.75, 0.72, 0.95, 0.75, 0.72, 0.95, 0.83, 0.73, 0.75, 0.81 and 0.76 respectively.ConclusionsIn the present study, serum ESR and CRP as well as synovial %PMNs, GROA, IL-8, IL-5, calprotectin and RETN protein levels were identified as potential biomarkers. Further studies are needed to further investigate their diagnostic utility and optimal cut-off values.Copyright © 2024 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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