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Osteomyelitis

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2017
Introduction: Osteomyelitis is an infection and inflammation of the bone or the bone marrow, caused by an infecting organism. Although bone is normally resistant to bacterial colonization, events such as trauma, surgery, the presence of foreign bodies ...
Dragomirov, Dragomir, Manev, Rostislav, Radeva, Meriyan, Stomatova, Natalia   +3 more
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Staged Reconstruction for Humeral Osteomyelitis after Severe Crush Injury of the Shoulder: A Case Report [PDF]

Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal, 2022
The incidence of humeral osteomyelitis is relatively rare as compared to incidence of lower limb osteomyelitis. Despite having no guideline in the management of humeral osteomyelitis, surgeons have utilised their experience in managing lower limb ...
Kow RY, Mohd-Yusof N, Abas MF, Low CL
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Osteomyelitis related lameness across animal species: pathophysiology, etiology, epidemiology and experimental model approaches [PDF]

Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Osteomyelitis is an inflammatory disorder resulting from the invasion of opportunistic pathogens into bones and bone marrows, causing necrosis and affecting multiple animal groups.
Andi Asnayanti, Udara Rathnayake, Udara Rathnayake, Anh Dang Trieu Do, Anh Dang Trieu Do, Ruvindu Perera, Ruvindu Perera, Adnan Alrubaye, Adnan Alrubaye   +8 more
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Clinical outcomes of pediatric osteomyelitis

BMC Pediatrics, 2023
Background Osteomyelitis in children may produce severe sequelae. However, the frequency and distribution of such complications by type of osteomyelitis (chronic or acute) is not well described.
Kylie Disch, Deirdre A. Hill, Harry Snow, Walter Dehority   +3 more
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Osteomyelitis [PDF]

New England Journal of Medicine, 2004
Bone and joint infections are painful for patients and frustrating for both them and their doctors. The high success rates of antimicrobial therapy in most infectious diseases have not yet been achieved in bone and joint infections owing to the ...
Lew, Daniel Pablo, Waldvogel, Francis, Daniel P Lew, Francis A Waldvogel   +3 more
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Histopathological Osteomyelitis Evaluation Score (HOES) – an innovative approach to histopathological diagnostics and scoring of osteomyelitis

GMS Interdisciplinary Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery DGPW, 2014
Background: Treatment and diagnosis of osteomyelitis are still a challenging problem for surgeons, microbiologists and histopathologists. A direct microbiological detection of bacteria in tissues is still gold standard, but it is not always successful ...
Tiemann, A., Hofmann, G. O., Krukemeyer, M. G., Krenn, V., Langwald, S.   +4 more
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Genetic Determinants for Bacterial Osteomyelitis: A Focused Systematic Review of Published Literature

Frontiers in Genetics, 2021
Background: Osteomyelitis is an inflammatory process characterized by progressive bone destruction. Moreover, chronic bacterial osteomyelitis is regarded as a difficult-to-treat clinical entity due to its long-standing course and frequent infection ...
Xiaoping Xie, Jiangbi Li, Feng Gu, Ke Zhang, Zilong Su, Qiangqiang Wen, Zhenjiang Sui, Pengcheng Zhou, Tiecheng Yu   +8 more
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Outcomes in patients with clinically suspected pedal osteomyelitis based on bone marrow signal pattern on MRI [PDF]

Journal of Bone and Joint Infection, 2023
Objective: confluent T1 hypointense marrow signal is widely accepted to represent osteomyelitis on MRI. Some authors have suggested that non-confluent bone marrow signal abnormality should be considered early osteomyelitis.
C. A. Tiegs-Heiden, T. C. Anderson, M. S. Collins, M. P. Johnson, D. R. Osmon, D. E. Wenger   +5 more
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Choosing the right animal model for osteomyelitis research: Considerations and challenges

Journal of Orthopaedic Translation, 2023
Osteomyelitis is a debilitating bone disorder characterized by an inflammatory process involving the bone marrow, bone cortex, periosteum, and surrounding soft tissue, which can ultimately result in bone destruction.
Shen Huang, Jing Wen, Yiqing Zhang, Xiaochun Bai, Zhong-Kai Cui   +4 more
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Expanding the definition beyond surveillance criteria reveals a large burden of osteomyelitis caused by group B Streptococcus in the United States Veterans Health Administration

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022
Background Population-based surveillance studies may underestimate osteomyelitis caused by Group B Streptococcus (GBS). We analyzed cases of GBS osteomyelitis, including patients diagnosed using an expanded case definition that incorporates cultures from
Tayoot Chengsupanimit, Taissa A. Bej, Brigid Wilson, Richard E. Banks, Sunah Song, Janet M. Briggs, Robin L. P. Jump, Federico Perez   +7 more
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