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SponDT (Spondylodiscitis Diagnosis and Treatment): spondylodiscitis scoring system [PDF]
Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, 2019 Background Spondylodiscitis is a chameleon among infectious diseases due to the lack of specific symptoms with which it is associated. It is nevertheless a serious infection, with 7% mortality of hospitalized patients, in large part because of delayed ...
Lars Homagk +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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Bratislavske lekarske listy, 2008 Spondylodiscitis is the most common complication of sepsis or local infection, usually of an abscess. Very often it develops in patients immunocompromised by a malignant disease, infection, or during immunosupression for organ transplantations etc. Presently, the basic diagnostic examinations to establish spondylodiscitis are the magnetic resonance ...
Titlić, Marina +1 more
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The Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular ImagingDiagnosis of spondylodiscitis remains a challenge for clinicians. It results from various causative agents and conditions that can be challenging to identify. Prompt and appropriate treatment are necessary to prevent long-term irreversible complications and sequelae.
NORIEGA-ÁLVAREZ, Edel +5 more
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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 +8 more
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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 +8 more
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Treatment of spondylodiscitis [PDF]
International Orthopaedics, 2011 Pyogenic infections of the spine are relatively rare with an incidence between 1:100,000 and 1:250,000 per year, but the incidence is increasing due to increases in average life-expectancy, risk factors, and medical comorbidities. The mean time in hospital varies from 30 to 57 days and the hospital mortality is reported to be 2-17%.
Kourosh, Zarghooni +3 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 +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 +9 more
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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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