Abstract Background The present randomized clinical trial evaluated the efficacy of a topical lidocaine-prilocaine cream (EMLA) to relief pain during spinal puncture in pediatric oncology patients. Materials and Methods Sixty patients with malignancy candidate for spinal puncture were selected for this study. The patients were randomly allocated to two groups. Group A had topical EMLA cream...

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to evaluation the diagnostic value of procalcitonin (PCT) in patients with spinal infection, compare to the classical biomarkers such as C-reactive protein (CRP), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), white blood cell (WBC) count. METHODS All patients who were diagnosed as a spinal infection between January, 2013 and July, 2014 were included in this study. Se...

Spondylodiscitis is an uncommon infection of the intervertebral disc and vertebra with incidence between 0.2-2.4/100,000 annually. Severe cases can lead to spinal epidural abscess compressive neurological syndromes.

Individuals with rheumatoid arthritis are at higher risk for infection than the general population, and surgical site infection after spinal surgery in this population can result in clinically significant complications. The goal of this study was to identify risk factors for acute surgical site infection after spinal surgery in patients with rheumatoid arthritis who were treated with nonbiologi...

Spondylitis is a reemerging epidemic spinal infection in male broiler chickens (5 to 7 weeks of age) as well as broiler breeder roosters (15 to 18 weeks of age). Among various causative agents, Enterococcus species and in particular E. cecorum, a gram-positive bacterium as a gastrointestinal flora of birds, have mostly been isolated. On late September 2015, a number of 10 week...

BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus is thought to be a risk factor for surgical site infection. There have been no reports about the infection rate in diabetic patients who have undergone posterior spinal instrumented fusion. We present a retrospective analysis of infection rates after posterior spinal instrumented fusion in diabetic and non-diabetic patients. METHODS Of 337 patients who underwent p...

Infection is the major and important complication of spinal instrumentation generally requiring removal of the implant. Although findings of infection usually appear within a few months after operation, they may appear even after few years in some cases. A case with delayed postoperative infection 6 years after surgery is reported. A 27-year-old female with purulent flow from her anterolateral ...

Introduction: Information regarding the clinical behavior and anesthetic perioperative management in pregnant patients with SARS-CoV-2 is starting to appear literature form of case reports or series. However, strong evidence recommendations are still limited.
 Objective: To describe characteristics, results management, complications seroprevalent women for infection, delivered by cesarean ...

Postoperative spinal wound infection increases the morbidity of the patient and the cost of healthcare. Despite the development of prophylactic antibiotics and advances in surgical technique and postoperative care, wound infection continues to compromise patient outcome after spinal surgery. Spinal instrumentation also has an important role in the development of postoperative infections. This r...