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Review Question - QID 211504

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QID 211504 (Type "211504" in App Search)
A 77-year-old active woman with a periprosthetic infection after a left total hip undergoes the first stage of a planned two-stage reconstruction using a prosthesis with antibiotic-loaded acrylic cement. She is discharged to a nursing home with intravenous antibiotics. She falls 8 weeks after the first-stage procedure and sustains a fracture around the cemented antibiotic-laden prosthesis. She undergoes a hip aspiration of her affected hip which reveals a synovial cell count of 500 cells/µl and a negative alpha-defensin. Which of the following is the most appropriate definitive treatment for this patient?
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