Answer to the letter to the editor of M. Kataria et al. concerning "Local vancomycin therapy to reduce surgical site infection in adult spine surgery: a randomized prospective study" by Salimi S, et al. (Eur Spine J [2022];31:454–460)

[摘要] I appreciate the comments on our article "Local vancomycin therapy to reduce surgical site infection in adult spinesurgery: a randomized prospective study"[1]. I would liketo clarify and add some comments.The purpose of this RCT is to investigate the efect oflocal vancomycin on postoperative infection. Our intentionin this study was not to determine the risk factors or checkthem in the cases, and as it is specifed in table 1, the riskfactors mentioned in the literature (such as diabetes, IHD,COPD, smoking, and dural tear) [2, 3] were determined inthe cases so that their distribution in the two groups does notdifer and does not afect the results.

[学科分类] 骨科学