Infections of the spinal column – Spondylodiscitis

COVID-19 infection leading to lethal spondylodiscitis with spinal abscess

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...

Movements of the lumbar spinal column.

Title : Spondylodiscitis following spinal anesthesia for transurethral resection of prostate

Spinal infections.

©2005 British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery doi:10.1302/0301-620X.87B11. 16294 $2.00 J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2005;87-B:1454-8. The axial skeleton accounts for 2% to 7% of all cases of osteomyelitis. 1-3 Predisposing factors include diabetes mellitus, malnutrition, substance abuse, HIV infection, malignancy, the long-term use of steroids, renal failure and septicaemia. 4-8 Protein m...

Dynamic CT scanning of spinal column trauma.

Dynamic sequential computed tomographic scanning with automatic table incrementation uses low milliampere-second technique to eliminate tube cooling delays between scanning slices and, thus, markedly shortens examination times. A total of 25 patients with spinal column trauma involving 28 levels were studied with dynamic scans and retrospectively reviewed. Dynamic studies were considerably fast...