Knee Septic Arthritis after Arthroscopy: Incidence, Risk Factors, Functional Outcome, and Infection Eradication Rate.

Several risk factors have been suggested by this uncontrolled data including preoperative risk factors, factors related to the host, and surgical risk factors ( Table 3 ). The use of intraoperative intra-articular steroids has been discussed frequently as a risk factor for infection. 5 16 Armstrong et al 5 showed that use of intra-articular corticosteroids declined after the first 2 years of the study, and the risk of infection with its use was highly significant.

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