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Common Options and Overlooked Alternative for Drainage of Inaccessible Presacral Abscess: A Case Report

Acta Medica Lituanica, 2021
Purpose. To demonstrate options and alternative for drainage of inaccessible presacral abscess by the example of a rare clinical case of pyogenic spondylodiscitis, transsacraly drained under a combination of two interventional techniques – CT-guided bone
Evelina Kodzis, Donatas Jocius, Ona Lapteva, Rugilė Kručaitė   +3 more
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Efficacy and safety with the use of Antibiotic-impregnated Poly-methyl methacrylate (AI-PMMA) for thoracolumbar spinal reconstruction in pyogenic Spondylodiscitis: Retrospective cohort study

Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2021
Background: Surgical treatment of spinal osteomyelitis and discitis remains challenging due to the risk of implant colonization. We sought to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of using antibiotic-impregnated poly-methyl methacrylate (AI-PMMA) in spinal
Dejan Slavnic, Doris Tong, Gustavo Anton, Rani Bashiti, Daniel Carr, Connor Hanson, Evan Lytle, Boyd Richards, Teck-Mun Soo   +8 more
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Hematologic Inflammation Indices for Differentiating between Brucella, Pyogenic, and Tuberculous Spondylodiscitis

Biomedicines
Infectious spondylodiscitis is a life-threatening disease and has some challenges in terms of diagnostic, differentiative, and therapeutic processes. Therefore, rapid and effective management of infectious spondylodiscitis is necessary.
Ali Irfan Baran, Irfan Binici, Yusuf Arslan, Zekiye Hakseven Karaduman, Server Ilter, Tayyar Tarcan, Murat Unal   +6 more
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Salmonella vertebral osteomyelitis of thoracic spine

Journal of Spinal Surgery, 2014
Salmonella spondylitis is a rare illness and may present as pyogenic spondylodiscitis, septic discitis, vertebral osteomyelitis and epidural abscess.
Rakesh Gupta, Rahul Awasthi, Apoorva Pauranik   +2 more
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Ureteric Stone-Related Escherichia coli Bacteraemia Associated with Spondylodiscitis

Uro, 2021
Escherichia coli (E. coli)-related urosepsis associated with a ureteric stone has been shown to cause a systemic bacteraemia that can spread to other parts of the body.
Zahra Rehman, Jack Cullen, Samuel Withey, Francesca Kum   +3 more
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Recurrent Cervical Pyogenic Spondylodiscitis Caused by Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. pasteurianus: A Case Report

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
Pyogenic spondylodiscitis is a rare infection, with cervical spine involvement occurring in only 3%–10% of the cases. Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. pasteurianus, a normal gut flora component, is a rare causative agent of spinal infections. Here, we report the case of an 88‐year‐old man with cervical pyogenic spondylodiscitis caused by this organism,
Takeshi Yamashita, Katsuyuki Yoshida, Michiko Matsuzawa Adachi, Takumi Otsuki, Takahiko Fukuchi, Priya Gusain   +5 more
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One‐stage Debridement via Oblique Lateral Interbody Fusion Corridor Combined with Posterior Pedicle Screw Fixation in Treating Spontaneous Lumbar Infectious Spondylodiscitis: A Case Series

Orthopaedic Surgery, 2019
Objective Surgery is indicated when antibiotic treatment fails in pyogenic spondylodiscitis, which is caused by pathogens such as the Staphylococcus species.
Yong‐jun Tong, Jun‐hui Liu, Shun‐wu Fan, Feng‐dong Zhao   +3 more
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Imaging findings of spondylodiscitis

Çukurova Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi, 2016
Spondylodiscitis is an infection of the intervertebral disc and adjacent vertebral bodies. Magnetic resonance imaging is the method of choice for the spondylodiscitis. The characteristic findings in the spondylodiscitis are hypointense on T1-weighted (W)
Ozlem Alkan, Naime Altinkaya
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Successful Treatment of Escherichia coli‐Related Spondylitis With an Extended Meropenem Infusion Time for a 72‐Year‐Old Woman: A Case Report

Clinical Case Reports, Volume 13, Issue 12, December 2025.
Temperature change curve of patients during hospitalization in our hospital. a: Used meropenem 2g q8h to extend the infusion time of 3h. ABSTRACT Escherichia coli (E. coli) causes spinal infections relatively rarely and is often closely associated with parenteral infections. E.
Wang Hongbin, Xu Jing, Wang Xianwei, Guo Hui, Fan Xutao   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Streptococcus Constellatus Spondylodiscitis in a Teenager: A Case Report [PDF]

Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal, 2017
Streptococcus constellatus is an extremely rare cause of pyogenic spondylodiscitis. Literature search yielded only one case report in an elderly 72 years old man with spontaneous T10-T11 S. constellatus spondylodiscitis.
Lim SW, Lim HY, Kannaiah T, Zuki Z
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