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Increasing incidence of spondylodiscitis in England: An analysis of the national health service (NHS) hospital episode statistics from 2012 to 2021

Brain and Spine, 2023
Background: Spondylodiscitis is a potentially life-threatening infection of the intervertebral disk and adjacent vertebral bodies, with a mortality rate of 2–20%.
Santhosh G. Thavarajasingam, Hariharan Subbiah Ponniah, Richard Philipps, Jonathan Neuhoff, Andreas Kramer, Andreas K. Demetriades, Ehab Shiban, Florian Ringel, Benjamin Davies   +8 more
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Spondylodiscitis After Surgery for Pelvic Organ Prolapse: Description of a Rare Complication and Systematic Review of the Literature

Frontiers in Surgery, 2021
Background: Spondylodiscitis can be a rare complication of gynecological surgery, typically of procedures involving the sacrum and the sacrospinous ligament. This report presents a case of spondylodiscitis arising after a laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy with
Guglielmo Stabile, Federico Romano, Ghergana A. Topouzova, Francesco Paolo Mangino, Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Antonio Simone Laganà, Nicolò De Manzini, Giuseppe Ricci, Giuseppe Ricci   +8 more
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A disease that is difficult to diagnose and treat: evaluation of 343 spondylodiscitis cases

Journal of International Medical Research, 2021
Objective Spondylodiscitis is an important clinical a problem requiring serious approaches. In this study, we sought to raise awareness by examining the epidemiology and laboratory, clinical, and radiological findings of spondylodiscitis, which sometimes
Safak Kaya, Sehmuz Kaya, Seyhmus Kavak, Senol Comoglu   +3 more
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A rare case of invasive non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae spondylodiscitis and periprosthetic joint infection [PDF]

Journal of Bone and Joint Infection, 2021
A non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) was responsible for an invasive infection including bacteremia, spondylodiscitis with epidural abscess, and periprosthetic hip infection in a 79-year-old woman, triggered by a superinfected ethmo-orbital ...
K. Sermet, K. Sermet, F. Demaeght, I. Alcaraz, N. Viget, J. Dauenhauer, E. Senneville, E. Senneville, O. Robineau, O. Robineau   +9 more
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Spontaneous spondylodiscitis and epidural abscess due to Listeria monocytogenes in a middle-aged patient with gentamicin related side effects: A case report and a review of literature

Brain and Spine, 2022
Introduction: Primary spondylodiscitis due to Listeria monocytogenes (LM) is a rare condition. Research question: We present a case of spontaneous LM spondylodiscitis with an epidural abscess in a middle-aged man, who reported no gastrointestinal ...
Artur Vetkas, Piret Mitt, Reet Tikk
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Presumptive bacteriological diagnosis of spondylodiscitis in infants less than 4 years by detecting K. kingae DNA in their oropharynx: Data from a preliminar two centers study

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022
Background and ObjectivesMost cases of spondylodiscitis in children aged between 6 and 48 months old could be caused primarily by K. kingae. The present prospective study aimed to determine whether an innovative and indirect diagnosis approach - based on
Moez Chargui, Andrzej Krzysztofiak, Paola Bernaschi, Giacomo De Marco, Benoit Coulin, Christina Steiger, Romain Dayer, Dimitri Ceroni   +7 more
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Spondylodiscitis in Children: A Retrospective Study and Comparison With Non-vertebral Osteomyelitis

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2021
Objectives: The aim of this study is to provide new data on pediatrics spondylodiscitis for an optimal clinical management of this site-specific osteomyelitis.Methods: We reported 48 cases of pediatric spondylodiscitis and made three comparisons between:
Marco Roversi, Gianluca Mirra, Antonio Musolino, Domenico Barbuti, Laura Lancella, Daniele Deriu, Carlo Iorio, Alberto Villani, Marco Crostelli, Osvaldo Mazza, Andrzej Krzysztofiak   +10 more
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Case Report: Campylobacter fetus caused pyogenic spondylodiscitis with a presentation of cauda equina syndrome after instrumented lumbar fusion surgery

Frontiers in Surgery, 2022
Spondylodiscitis with/without neurologic impairment is a serious infection, predominantly occurring in high-risk patients. Campylobacter fetus caused spondylodiscitis is very rare.
Matevž Topolovec, Matevž Topolovec, Nataša Faganeli, Peter Brumat, Peter Brumat   +4 more
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Anaerobic spondylodiscitis: a retrospective analysis

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2022
Background This retrospective study analyzed the clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with anaerobic spondylodiscitis. Methods From a total of 382 patients with infectious spondylodiscitis, nine patients (2.4%; two male and seven female with
Chien-Ting Chen, Meng-Huang Wu, Tsung-Yu Huang, Yen-Yao Li, Tsung-Jen Huang, Chien-Yin Lee, Che-Han Lin, Ching-Yu Lee   +7 more
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Characteristics of spontaneous coagulase-negative staphylococcal spondylodiscitis: a retrospective comparative study versus Staphylococcus aureus spondylodiscitis

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017
Background Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are increasingly implicated in recent patient series of spondylodiscitis, but there are no series of CoNS-spondylodiscitis available.
Julien Lopez, Zuzana Tatar, Anne Tournadre, Marion Couderc, Bruno Pereira, Martin Soubrier, Jean-Jacques Dubost   +6 more
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