Bacterial Findings in Infected Hip Joint Replacements in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis: A Study of 318 Revisions for Infection Reported to the Norwegian Arthroplasty Register

Table 1

Overview of literature after year 2000 discussing whether rheumatoid arthritis patients are high risk patients for bacteremic prosthetic joint infection after dental treatment and therefore routinely needing antibiotic prophylaxis.

Authors	Year of publication	Country	RA high risk patients, thus antibiotics
ADA and AAOS [17]	2003	USA	Yes
Scott et al. [21]	2005	Australia	Yes
Tong and Theis [22]	2008	New Zealand	Yes
Kotze [18]	2008	South Africa	Yes
Rompen et al. [20]	2008	The Netherlands	Yes
AAOS [23]	2009	USA	Yes
Kuong et al. [19]	2009	Hong Kong	Yes
Seymour et al. [27]	2003	Great Britain	No
Uçkay et al. [29]	2008	Switzerland	No
Blomgren et al. [25, 26]	2009	Sweden	No
Berbari et al. [24]	2010	USA	No