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Rare presentation of vertebral discitis, osteomyelitis and polyarticular septic arthritis due to disseminated Neisseria gonorrhea infection

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2020
Disseminated Neisseria gonorrhea (N. Gonorrhoeae) infection can present with polyarticular involvement. Acute vertebral discitis/osteomyelitis due to this organism infection has been rarely reported.
Moni Roy, Sharjeel Ahmad, Ashish Kumar Roy   +2 more
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Post-Surgical Discitis in PIVD: Lumbar Predominance and Age-Related Risk in a Retrospective Study

Pakistan Journal of Clinical Research
Postoperative discitis is a rare yet serious complication following surgical treatment for prolapsed intervertebral disc (PIVD). It poses significant challenges in terms of patient outcomes, healthcare costs, and hospital resources.
Saleem Raza, Zaheer Khan
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Community acquired Stenotrophomonas maltophilia discitis: Diagnosis aided by shotgun metagenomic sequencing [PDF]

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2019
We report a rare case of culture negative L4-L5 discitis and epidural abscess in an immunocompetent child who had dry cupping therapy performed to treat low back strain.
Gang Wang, Nannan Xu, Lulu Yang, Feng Zheng, Lintao Sai, Jiale Zhou, Shangxin Yang   +6 more
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The effect of intradiscal vancomycin powder in the prevention of postoperative discitis: RCT study

Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2020
Background: Post discectomy discitis, although relatively uncommon (4%), is regarded as the most disabling cause of failed back surgery. We aimed to show the effect of intradiscal Vancomycin powder in reducing or preventing postoperative discitis in ...
Ghazwan A Hasan, Reda A. Sheta, MD, Hayder Q. Raheem, Luay M. Al–Naser   +3 more
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Pyogenic discitis in adolescence: a case report and review of the literature

Acta Medica Academica, 2010
Back pain in adolescents can have many underlying reasons. Even though discitis is an uncommon condition, health care professionals should suspect discitis in children and adolescents with back pain with or without a history of trauma.
Eldin E. Karaikovic, Worawat Limthongkul, Thomas Hearty, Steven Goldberg   +3 more
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Discitis in young children

The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume, 2001
Discitis is uncommon in children and presents in different ways at different ages. It is most difficult to diagnose in the uncommunicative toddler of one to three years of age. We present 11 consecutive cases. The non-specific clinical features included refusal to walk (63%), back pain (27%), inability to flex the lower back (50%) and a loss of lumbar
R, Brown, M, Hussain, K, McHugh, V, Novelli, D, Jones   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Discitis

Radiopaedia.org, 2020
S. Ayesa
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Evaluating the Performance of Pathogen-Targeted Positron Emission Tomography Radiotracers in a Rat Model of Vertebral Discitis-Osteomyelitis.

Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023
BACKGROUND Vertebral discitis-osteomyelitis (VDO) is a devastating infection of the spine that is challenging to distinguish from noninfectious mimics using computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. We and others have developed novel metabolism-
Matthew F. L. Parker, Marina López-Álvarez, Aryn A Alanizi, Justin M. Luu, Ilona Polvoy, Alexandre M. Sorlin, Hecong Qin, Sanghee Lee, Sarah J. Rabbitt, Priamo A Pichardo-González, A. Ordonez, J. Blecha, O. Rosenberg, R. Flavell, Joanne Engel, Sanjay K. Jain, Michael A. Ohliger, David M Wilson   +17 more
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Clinical prediction for surgical versus nonsurgical interventions in patients with vertebral osteomyelitis and discitis

Journal of Spine Surgery, 2023
Background Vertebral osteomyelitis and discitis (VOD), an infection of intervertebral discs, often requires spine surgical intervention and timely management to prevent adverse outcomes.
Jennifer Lee, Miguel A. Ruiz-Cardozo, Rujvee P. Patel, Saad Javeed, R. Lavadi, Catherine M. Newsom-Stewart, A. Alyakin, Camilo A. Molina, Nitin Agarwal, Wilson Z. Ray, Michele Santacatterina, Brenton H. Pennicooke   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Transforaminal Full-Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy for Lumbar Pyogenic Discitis: A Review

Journal of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Technique, 2023
Pyogenic discitis can cause significant back pain, neurological complications, and spinal deformities. An early and accurate diagnosis of pyogenic discitis is crucial for its effective management.
Takaoki Kimura, Yuko Ohara, Nahoko Kikuchi, Yasuhiro Nakajima   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source