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Table 4 Factors associated with favorable outcomesa,b

From: Rapidly-growing mycobacterial infection: a recognized cause of early-onset prosthetic joint infection

Factors

Univariate

OR (95% CI)

P value

Multivariate

OR (95%CI)

P value

At 6 months

 Body mass index

0.88 (0.78–0.98)

.02

0.86 (0.77–0.97)

.02

 Creatinine

0.64 (0.33–1.28)

.21

 Chronic kidney disease

0.43 (0.13–1.41)

.16

 Malignancy

0.18 (0.29–1.13)

.07

 Combined maintenance antibiotic therapy

0.38 (0.15–0.93)

.04

 Removal of prosthesis

2.76 (1.10–6.88)

0.03

5.96 (1.88–18.88)

< .01

At 12 months

 Gender (Female)

1.82 (0.76–4.34)

.18

 Age

0.97 (0.93–1.01)

.13

 Body mass index

0.89 (0.77–0.99)

.05

0.87 (0.76–0.99)

.04

 Creatinine

0.48 (0.20–1.15)

.10

 Combined maintenance antibiotic therapy

3.41 (0.75–15.50)

0.11

 Removal of prosthesis

4.33 (0.58–32.33)

0.15

3.96 (1.15–13.71)

.03

  1. Abbreviations: CI confidence interval, OR odds ratio
  2. aObtained from subjects with culture-proven non-mycobacterial, mycobacterial and culture-negative PJI
  3. bAnalyzed by univariate and multivariate logistic regression (forward stepwise)