A message from Dr. Jeffrey Karr
As I enter my third decade of treating bone infections, I have come to realize that every patient with a bone infection have two common threads. The first is that they want a "cure". The second and most common thread is that the patient has seen one or more "specialist", received either surgery usually involving some type of debridement and/or long term antibiotics but their bone infection still persist. In order to have your bone infection resolved, you need the correct treatment. In 2009 I invented the first successful minimally invasive single stage treatment for osteomyelitis, the PADT (percutaneous antibiotic delivery technique). This technique had helped hundreds of patients successfully resolve their bone infection. The Osteomyelitis Center of Central Florida is here to provide the comprehensive, coordinated care you need to heal and to return to what you want to do. I have the only long term, large scale foot, ankle, and lower leg published human data patient outcomes globally. The Osteomyelitis Center of Central Florida serves patients from the United States, Caribbean, as well as Central and South America.
Over a 74-month period (~ 6 years), 143 lower-extremity osteomyelitis locations in 125 patients were treated with a calcium sulfate/hydroxyapatite liquid bone void filler with antibiotic(s). The osteomyelitis locations were treated with a percutaneous antibiotic delivery technique (PADT) delivering intraosseous antibiotic followed by either oral or intravenous antibiotics for 4 weeks. There was no recurrence of osteomyelitis in 96.15% of the treatable patients. A bone void filler with antibiotic(s) using the percutaneous antibiotic delivery technique is a safe, reliable, and effective means to treat lower-extremity osteomyelitis with either oral or intravenous antibiotics for 4 weeks. (1) This treatment is highly successful. I do want to stress that this is not a magic wand technique and I do not have a silver bullet. But I will say we have helped so many people that have lost hope that their bone infections have a chance to be treated. A very few patents did require more than one surgical treatment. These patients were very complicated cases.
1. Karr, JC. Lower Extremity Osteomyelitis Treatment Utilizing Calcium Sulfate/Hydroxyapatite Bone Void Filler
With Antibiotics: Seven-Year Retrospective Study. May/June 2018 Vol 108 No 3 pg 210-214. Journal of the
American Podiatric Medical Association.
Over a 74-month period (~ 6 years), 143 lower-extremity osteomyelitis locations in 125 patients were treated with a calcium sulfate/hydroxyapatite liquid bone void filler with antibiotic(s). The osteomyelitis locations were treated with a percutaneous antibiotic delivery technique (PADT) delivering intraosseous antibiotic followed by either oral or intravenous antibiotics for 4 weeks. There was no recurrence of osteomyelitis in 96.15% of the treatable patients. A bone void filler with antibiotic(s) using the percutaneous antibiotic delivery technique is a safe, reliable, and effective means to treat lower-extremity osteomyelitis with either oral or intravenous antibiotics for 4 weeks. (1) This treatment is highly successful. I do want to stress that this is not a magic wand technique and I do not have a silver bullet. But I will say we have helped so many people that have lost hope that their bone infections have a chance to be treated. A very few patents did require more than one surgical treatment. These patients were very complicated cases.
1. Karr, JC. Lower Extremity Osteomyelitis Treatment Utilizing Calcium Sulfate/Hydroxyapatite Bone Void Filler
With Antibiotics: Seven-Year Retrospective Study. May/June 2018 Vol 108 No 3 pg 210-214. Journal of the
American Podiatric Medical Association.