Acta Chir Orthop Traumatol Cech. 1989; 56(3):225-230
[The Immunoskintest].
To evaluate the surgical risk before serious operations it is possible to use as one of the criteria a skin test the principle of which is an immunity reaction to a defined antigen injected strictly intradermally. It helps us to assess simply the state of immunological reactivity of the cellular type in a large number of persons of different age and thus to estimate to a certain extent the incidence of postoperative infectious complications. In a selected group of 68 patients who were hospitalized at the Orthopaedic Clinic in Plzen in 1987 the Immunoskintest was performed. The authors compare the incidence of infectious complications in different groups by the character of the disease, i.e. in a) planned operations in coxarthritis, b) in patients with injuries of the proximal part of the femur immediately after injury, c) in patients with injuries of the proximal part of the femur treated conservatively. The incidence of infectious complications is evaluated in conjunction with the results of the Immunoskintest.
Published: June 1, 1989 Show citation