Managing an Acute and Chronic Periprosthetic Infection

Table 1

Classification of periprosthetic infection according to different authors [3, 4].

	Tsukuyama et al.	Toms et al.	Zimmerli et al.	Parvizi et al.
Acute	Less than 4 weeks	Less than 6 weeks	Less than 3 months	Less than 3 months
Subacute	N/A	N/A	>3 months	N/A
Chronic	>4 weeks	>6 weeks	>1 year	>3 months