نتایج جستجو برای: spinal epidural abscess

تعداد نتایج: 150688  

Journal: :Clinical Infectious Diseases 1999

2011
Douglas P. Olson Sarita Soares Sandhya V. Kanade

Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) is responsible for a broad range of infections. We report the case of a 46-year-old gentleman with a history of untreated, uncomplicated Hepatitis C who presented with a 2-month history of back pain and was found to have abscesses in his psoas and right paraspinal muscles with subsequent lumbar spine osteomyelitis. Despite...

2012
Mehmet Ali Ekici Zühtü Özbek Abdülkerim Gökoğlu Ahmet Menkü

Spinal epidural abscess, if especially caused by Brucellosis is a very rare disease which is usually a consequence of spondylodiscitis. The spinal column can be affected at any joint; however, the lumbar spine is the most common region, especially at the level of the L4-5 and L5-S1. The frequency of spinal involvement usually seen at the lumbar, thoracic and cervical spine respectively. As an o...

2015
Khalid Al-Hourani Chelsea Frost Addisu Mesfin

To our knowledge, there are no reports in the literature of patients with Parkinson disease (PD) developing upper cervical spine infections. Our objective is to present a case of upper cervical epidural abscess in a patient with PD and to review upper cervical spine infection. We present the patient's presentation, physical examination, imaging findings, and management as well a review of the l...

Journal: :acta medica iranica 0
m. ghaffarpour a. khoshroo m. h. harirchian h. sikaroodi h. pourmahmoodian s. jafari s. s. hejazi

brucellosis is an endemic disease in our country. neurobrucellosis occurs in 5 to 10% of cases, and can present at any stage of of the disease. this study was undertaken to evaluate clinical, epidemiological and paraclinical aspects of brucellosis with and without neurological manifestations. data of 30 patients, 15 cases with nervous system involvement (neurobrucellosis) and 15 cases without n...

2008
EMILIANO VIALLE LUIZ ROBERTO VIALLE GUILLERMO HOLTMANN

Epidural abscess is a rare form of spinal infection, with serious complications and high mortality rate. Described by Morgagni in 1761, and defined as a clinical entity by Bergamaschi in 1820, epidural abscess had an invariably fatal evolution before the advent of antibiotics apud Browder and Meyers(1). The first person to suggest a surgical treatment was Barth (1901), to subsequently state tha...

2013
Alireza Shoakazemi Amit Amit Nashid Nooralam Ashraf Abouharb Mark Gormley Steven McKinstry

Psoas9 and epidural spinal abscesses2, 6 have been described as relatively rare conditions. The incidence of epidural spinal abscess, however, has doubled in the recent two decades, reaching 1 in 10000 hospital admissions8. Early diagnosis and management of these two pathologies, especially when presenting with insidious and vague symptoms, require a high degree of suspicion. In this case, unus...

2014
Varsha Moudgal Bonita Singal Carol A. Kauffman Jason A. Brodkey Anurag N. Malani Russell N. Olmsted Michael J. Kasotakis Spencer R. Koch Rami Kaakaji Mawuli Nyaku Anupama Neelakanta Paul Valenstein Suzanne Winter Michael Otto Rajasekhar Jagarlamudi Lisa Kerr Jennifer Czerwinski David Vandenberg Suzanne R. Sutton Holly Murphy Lakshmi K. Halasyamani

BACKGROUND A nationwide outbreak of fungal infections was traced to injection of Exserohilum-contaminated methylprednisolone. We describe our experience with patients who developed spinal or paraspinal infection after injection of contaminated methylprednisolone. METHODS Data were assembled from the Michigan Department of Community Health, electronic medical records, and magnetic resonance im...

2009
Tarkan Ergun Hatice Lakadamyali Ertan Gokay

We present a case of a posterior epidural abscess at the thoracic vertebral level causing paraparesia in a young, healthy individual with no otherwise predisposing factors, with normal laboratory findings, as diagnosed using fat-suppressed MR imaging. Spinal epidural abscess is a rare condition, encountered mostly in the midthoracic or lower lumbar vertebral levels of elderly patients, that has...

Background: Secondary complications after SARS-CoV-2 virus infection including cardiovascular and neurological pose additional morbidity and mortality. Till date there no single case report of spondylodiscitis with spinal abscess after CVOID-19 infection. Case Description: A 71- year-old man presented with tachypnea and cough since 24 hours. He was febrile and the CT-chest showed typical pictu...

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