Table 1: Delphia criteria for success after treatment of periprosthetic joint infection [33].

1.       Infection eradication characterized by a healed wound without fistula, drainage, or pain, and no infection recurrence caused by the same organism strain.

2.       No subsequent surgical intervention for infection after reimplantation surgery.

3.       No occurrence of PJI-related mortality (i.e., due to sepsis and necrotizing fasciitis).