This is a single patient study (SPS) that aims to test the bacteriophage treatment as an experimental treatment on a patient suffering from chronic periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) of the right hip. This patients has been suffering from an infection in the right sided hip arthroplasty with a multidrug resistant (MDR) strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria. All treatment options for this type of infection have been exhausted. If this patient remains without treatment then there is a high risk of mortality secondary to sepsis and the only remaining surgical option for this patient is a hind quarter amputation which will be a devastating surgery that will largely affect this patients quality of life. However, a large number of published case series have shown the positive impact of combining bacteriophage therapy with antibiotics to achieve a synergistic antibacterial effect and overcome possible resistance development to clear the infection. Therefore we intend to try the bacteriophage therapy on this patients infected hip in the aim to control the infection and improve the patients quality of life.
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