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THIEME Local Antibiotics In Arthroplasty by Walenkamp
Successes, limits, and further developments in PMMA bone cement as a local carrier of active substances as well as aspects of the prophylactic and therapeutic treatment of infections in endosurgery were the main topics of the meeting: - AB as prophylaxis in endoprosthetics - AB as therapy for early and late infections - Revision: one-step or wo-step treatment - PMMA bone cement as carrier of active substances - Spacers: PMMA as a drug delivery system - PMMA-gentamycin beads in the local therapy for infections - AB additives, mode of action of AB; interaction of AB with PMMA - PMMA-free active substance systems, new carrier materials - AB layers on implants Target groups: Physicians, especially surgeons (accident surgery), orthopedic surgeons, microbiologists, infectiologists, and materials scientists _x000D_
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