Bone Infection
Conditions
Brief summary
This is a prospective study. Patients' cohort is composed of 70 consecutive post joint replacement and post tibial ORIF patients, referred by their orthopedic surgeon to the Nuclear Medicine institute of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in the diagnostic work up of post operative bone infection and or mechanical loosening. The proposed study will be presented to the ethical committee of the medical center and will be started once approved.
Interventions
OTHERBone Scan
Bone Scan: three-phase planar Bone Scan and a SPECT/CT \[perfusion, blood pool and SPECT/CT of the relevant region of interest (ROI), and a whole-body planar late bone scan\].
Sponsors
Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 120 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
1\. Three months or more post joint replacement, or post tibial ORIF, or last surgical intervention adult patients suspected of bone infection and or mechanical loosening.
Exclusion criteria
1. Patients younger than 18 years; 2. Shorter than 3 month surgical intervention at the suspected area; Newly diagnosed (\<3 months) fractures around the prosthesis; 3. Pathological fractures (e.g. Metastatic).
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To assess the role of NM imaging in the diagnosis work up of joint prosthesis and tibial ORIF complications by using GE NM/CT 870 DR camera and its accompanied tools.. | 1 year |
Outcome results
None listed