Hematogenous Osteomyelitis in Recent 5 Years

Acute hematogenous osteomyelitis.

[Acute hematogenous osteomyelitis in infancy and childhood].

Chronic osteomyelitis is recognised as a very old disease, but acute osteomyelitis appears to have been understood only in the last 50 or so years. Until the latter part of the nineteenth century, acute osteomyelitis was only rarely recognised, except as a complication of open fractures or local sepsis. According to Wilensky (1927) the term osteomyelitis was probably coined by Nelaton in 1844. ...

[Treatment of acute hematogenous osteomyelitis in children].

Experience in treatment of 348 children with acute hematogenic osteomyelitis is analysed. Newborn infants and children whose ages ranged from 1 to 15 years formed a group of patients. Of decisive importance in the outcome of the disease are early diagnosis and emergency operative measures, aimed at decompressing, opening and cleansing the purulent foci, producing a high concentration of antibio...

Health Care Associated Hematogenous Pyogenic Vertebral Osteomyelitis

Although hematogenous pyogenic spinal infections have been related to hemodialysis (HD), catheter-related sepsis, and sporadically, to other nosocomial infections or procedures, in most recent studies and reviews the impact of nosocomial infection as a risk factor for vertebral osteomyelitis (VO) is not well established. The aim of our study was to describe the risk factors, infectious source, ...

Hematogenous Candida vertebral osteomyelitis treated with ketoconazole.

Candida vertebral osteomyelitis was diagnosed in a patient with systemic lupus erythematodes following X-ray evidence of osteomyelitis and the repeated culturing of Candida albicans from material obtained by needle biopsies from the third lumbar vertebra. The patient had been on glucocorticosteroids and parenteral nutrition six months previously. At that time, a yeast was cultured from the bloo...