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Campylobacter fetus spondylodiscitis: A case report and review of the literature

IDCases, 2018
Campylobacter are common zoonotic food borne pathogens but infrequent causes of disseminated human infection. Campylobacter fetus is an unusual cause of human infection and spondylodiscitis. We describe a case of C. fetus infection in a 72-year-old woman
Daniel Olaiya, Rosemary Fok, Prithwiraj Chakrabarti, Himanshu Sharma, James Greig   +4 more
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Chronic dialysis patients with infectious spondylodiscitis have poorer outcomes than non-dialysis populations

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, 2018
George Kuo,1 Wei-Chiao Sun,1 Yueh-An Lu,1 Chao-Yu Chen,1 Huang-Kai Kao,2 YuJr Lin,3 Yung-Chang Chen,4 Cheng-Chieh Hung,1 Ya-Chung Tian,1 Hsiang-Hao Hsu1 1Department of Nephrology, Kidney Research Center, College of Medicine, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial ...
Kuo G, Sun WC, Lu YA, Chen CY, Kao HK, Lin Y, Chen YC, Hung CC, Tian YC, Hsu HH   +9 more
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Clinical and microbiological profile of spondylodiscitis: a retrospective analysis

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
Background Spondylodiscitis is a rare infectious disease with rising incidence in recent years. From 2005 till 2021 the incidence of Spondylodiscitis rose by 104%.
Ghazaleh Golchoub, Ida Hosseini, Amirali Alamdari, Shabboo Ansari, Farid Javandoust Gharehbagh, Mahboobeh Taheri, Ilad Alavi Darazam   +6 more
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Spondylodiscitis and endocarditis caused by S. vestibularis

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2010
Streptococcus vestibularis is a recently described member of the viridans group that was first isolated from the vestibular mucosa of the human oral cavity and described as a new species in 1988. It has been rarely associated with human infections.
Muge Aydin Tufan, MD, Kart-Koseoglu Hamide, Associate Professor, Ersozlu-Bozkirli Duygu, MD, Azap Ozlem, Associate Professor, Tufan Kadir, MD, Yucel Ahmet Eftal, Professor   +5 more
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Spondylodiscitis. [PDF]

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, Josipović-Jelić, Željka   +1 more
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From Culture to Sequencing: Evolving Strategies for the Diagnosis of Pediatric Spondylodiscitis. [PDF]

Orthop Surg
Diagnostic approaches to pediatric spondylodiscitis have evolved from culture‐based methods with limited sensitivity to advanced molecular and sequencing technologies. Metagenomic next‐generation sequencing (mNGS) enables rapid, culture‐independent pathogen identification, improving diagnostic accuracy, guiding therapy, and reducing invasive procedures
Sbampato V, Khan AA, Tsoupras A, De Marco G, Ceroni D.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

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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Contemporary management of pain in cirrhosis: Toward precision therapy for pain

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Chronic pain is highly prevalent in patients with cirrhosis and is associated with poor health‐related quality of life and poor functional status. However, there is limited guidance on appropriate pain management in this population, and pharmacologic treatment can be harmful, leading to adverse outcomes, such as gastrointestinal bleeding ...
Alexis Holman, Neehar Parikh, Dan J. Clauw, David A. Williams, Elliot B. Tapper   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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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, Marc, Röllinghoff, Rolf, Sobottke, Peer, Eysel   +3 more
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