نتایج جستجو برای: epidural abscess

تعداد نتایج: 41780  

2018
Costansia Bureta Hiroyuki Tominaga Takuya Yamamoto Takao Setoguchi Hideki Kawamura Satoshi Nagano Ichiro Kawamura Masahiko Abematsu Hironori Kakoi Yasuhiro Ishidou Setsuro Komiya

BACKGROUND Here we report a rare case of lumbar spine epidural abscess and facet joint septic arthritis caused by Streptococcus agalactiae, which had spread to the iliopsoas muscles, leading to urine retention. CASE PRESENTATION A 68-year-old woman with low back pain experienced a sudden onset of bilateral lower limb weakness, it was followed 14 days later by urine retention. At consultation,...

2017
Jun-Seok Lee Ji-Hyun Ryu Jong-Tae Park Ki-Won Kim

BACKGROUND Destructive spondyloarthropathy (DSA) is one of the major complications in patients undergoing long-term hemodialysis. To the best of our knowledge, an epidural abscess occurring at the level of preexisting cervical DSA has not been well described in the literature. We report a unique case of quadriplegia caused by an epidural abscess occurring at the same level of preexisting cervic...

Journal: :British journal of anaesthesia 2006
S Grewal G Hocking J A W Wildsmith

Until recently epidural abscess was considered a rare, almost theoretical, complication of central nerve block, but anecdotal reports suggest that this is no longer the case. Thus a review of the risk factors, pathogenesis, clinical features and outcome of this condition is appropriate, the primary aim being to make recommendations on best anaesthetic practice to minimize the risk of this serio...

2015
Terry C. Burns Stefan A. Mindea Arjun V. Pendharkar Nicolae B. Lapustea Ioana Irime Jayakar V. Nayak

Ventral epidural abscess with osteomyelitis at the craniocervical junction is a rare occurrence that typically mandates spinal cord decompression via a transoral approach. However, given the potential for morbidity with transoral surgery, especially in the setting of immunosuppression, together with the advent of extended endonasal techniques, the transnasal approach could be attractive for sel...

2015
Yu-ichiro Ohnishi Koichi Iwatsuki Shiromaru Ishida Toshiki Yoshimine

A 45-year-old man with a history of untreated diabetes mellitus had a persisting fever, back pain, and diarrhea. The primary care physician diagnosed the patient with the flu and gastroenteritis. The patient developed paraplegia for two weeks and was admitted to another hospital. The physician in this hospital suspected infectious meningitis and myelitis, and administered piperacillin and stero...

2013
Konstantinos Chr. Soultanis Vasileios I. Sakellariou Konstantinos A. Starantzis Nikolaos A. Stavropoulos Panayiotis J. Papagelopoulos

We report a case of cervical epidural abscess from Enterococcus faecalis, which caused an insidious onset of tetraparesis. This 53-year-old female with a history of diabetes mellitus and chronic renal failure under hemodialysis presented with pain and progressive weakness of upper and lower extremities without fever. Although a recent MRI she did at the beginning of symptoms showed no significa...

2015
Annelise Miller Fahad Abduljabbar Peter Jarzem

Septic arthritis is a clinical emergency requiring prompt diagnosis and treatment to avoid significant morbidity and mortality. Polyarticular septic arthritis (PASA) accounts for 15% of all infectious arthritides and rarely occurs in immunocompetent adults. Staphylococcus aureus is the most commonly isolated organism, with infection primarily affecting knees, shoulders, elbows, and hips. The mo...

2015
Jae Hyuk Kang Hoon Choi Jin Sung Kim Min Kyu Lee Hue Jung Park

Percutaneous epidural neuroplasty may lead to complications such as hematoma, infection, epidural abscess, meningitis, hypotension, respiratory depression, urinary and fecal dysfunction, sexual dysfunction and paresthesia. Other technical complications may include shearing or tearing, misplacement, blockage and migration of the catheter. We report a case of a 41-year-old female patient, who und...

2017
Dong Min Kim Seok Won Kim

Human actinomycosis with involvement of the spine is a rare condition, with only a limited number of case reports published. To the best of our knowledge, no cases have been reported of epidural abscess causing destruction of the C2 body, bringing about a direct connection between spinal epidural and retropharyngeal abscesses. Here, we present such a case that occurred after acupuncture, and we...

Journal: :Pain physician 2017
Eun-Ji Choi Su-Young Kim Hyuck-Goo Kim Hong-Sik Shon Tae-Kyun Kim Kyung-Hoon Kim

BACKGROUND The incidence of spinal infection seems to be increasing in recent years. Percutaneous endoscopic debridement and drainage (PEDD) has become an effective alternative to extensive open surgery. OBJECTIVE This study reviewed the charter of patients who received PEDD using 4 different approach methods to evaluate the clinical results. STUDY DESIGN An Institutional Review Board (IRB)...

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