Risk Factors for Infectious Arthritis
Older age (50% of adults are > 60 years) |
Arthrocentesis (very small risk), joint injection, or joint surgery |
Cancer |
Chronic medical illness (eg, lung or liver disease) |
History of previous joint infection |
Immunodeficiency, including HIV |
Immunosuppressive therapy, including corticosteroids |
Injection drug use |
Rheumatoid arthritis and other forms of inflammatory arthritis |
Risk factors for sexually transmitted infections (eg, multiple sex partners, absence of barrier precautions) |
Skin infections |
See also Elsissy JG, Liu JN, Wilton PJ, Nwachuku I, Gowd AK, Amin NH. Bacterial Septic Arthritis of the Adult Native Knee Joint: A Review. JBJS Rev. 2020;8(1):e0059. doi:10.2106/JBJS.RVW.19.00059 |
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