Table 4.

Selected comorbidities and medications of patients on long-term antibiotics

Patient	Age (years)	Comorbidities/medications
1	28	Acute lymphocytic leukemia, status-post bone marrow transplant, chronic graft versus host disease; medications: chronic prednisone; also on chronic penicillin V, chronic trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole before periprosthetic joint infection
8	72	History of lung cancer, multiple myeloma, chemotherapy
9	77	Age; patient requested long-term suppression for fear of recurrence of infection
10	80	Age; history of prostate cancer status-post radiation, radiation proctitis
11	63	Chronic lower extremity lymphedema; patient requested long-term antibiotics
15	78	Extranodal marginal zone B cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Sjogren’s syndrome, myelodysplasia with neutropenia and thrombocytopenia
16	51	Status-post splenectomy and cadaveric kidney transplant; medications: azathioprine, prednisone; also on chronic trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole before periprosthetic joint infection
17	68	Recurrent B cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, metastatic renal cell carcinoma status-post nephrectomy, metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma; brain metastases discovered postoperatively