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The value of C-reactive protein (CRP) in infectious diseases has been recognized, but the diagnostic value of CRP in chronic PJI is unknown. Our aim was to investigate the diagnostic value of synovial CRP in chronic PJI and to explore the role of combined serum and synovial CRP in distinguishing chronic PJI from aseptic failure after knee and hip arthroplasties.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We prospectively enrolled patients scheduled to have a revision surgery for chronic PJI or aseptic loosening from January 2019 to December 2020, in which synovial CRP was additionally measured along with routine preoperative diagnostic serum ((ESR, CRP) and synovial (PMN%) biomarkers. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves and area under the curve (AUC) were analyzed for each biomarker to determine diagnostic efficacy.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      There were no statistically significant differences between the infection (\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u200939) and aseptic (\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u200958) groups, including 61 hips and 36 knees. The synovial CRP levels were significantly higher in the infection group than in the aseptic group (median: 9.93\u2009mg\/l vs 3.58\u2009mg\/l;\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u2009.001). The optimal cut-off value for detecting chronic PJI of Synovial fluid (SF) CRP was of 7.26\u2009mg\/l with a sensitivity of 84.62%, a specificity of 93.10%. The combined model I (Serum CRP\u2009&gt;\u200910.2\u2009mg\/l OR SF CRP\u2009&gt;\u20097.26\u2009mg\/l) had a negative predictive value (NPV) of 96.67%, and a sensitivity of 97.44%. The combined model II (Serum CRP\u2009&gt;\u200910.2\u2009mg\/l AND Synovial CRP\u2009&gt;\u20097.26\u2009mg\/l) led to a specificity of 1, and a positive predictive value (PPV) of 1.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The present study demonstrated that the combination of serum and synovial CRP can be used as an adjunct to the diagnosis of chronic PJI.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12891-021-04545-6","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,9]],"date-time":"2021-08-09T14:07:18Z","timestamp":1628518038000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":25,"title":["Combined serum and synovial C-reactive protein tests: a valuable adjunct to the diagnosis of chronic prosthetic joint infection"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Hai","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Leilei","family":"Qin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jiawei","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ning","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,9]]},"reference":[{"issue":"7","key":"4545_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"635","DOI":"10.2106\/JBJS.18.00632","volume":"101","author":"AV Carli","year":"2019","unstructured":"Carli AV, et al. 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