598 Indian Journal of Anaesthesia | Volume 61 | Issue 7 | July 2017 appear until after discharge.[2,5] It is, therefore, crucial to ensure that patients are informed and understand the early signs of epidural infection and report immediately. An information card explaining early signs of infection, instructions and emergency contact telephone numbers should be issued. The favourable neurologica...

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...

An epidural abscess secondary to osteomyelitis of the odontoid peg produced a sudden left-sided weakness. Appropriate antibiotics, transoral evacuation of the pus and subsequent posterior atlanto-axial fusion were associated with a full recovery.

Campylobacter fetus has been isolated as an infrequent cause of abscesses. We report a case of Campylobacter fetus epidural abscess and bacteremia in a debilitated elderly man who had a fatal outcome.

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...

Fig . 1.A, CT scan. Epidural gas outlines thecal sac. 8, Anteroposterior radiograph of lumbar spine demonstrated, in retrospect , gas outlining thecal sac between L5 and 51 (arrows) . C, CT scan. Gas in left sacral foramen and in epidural space. D, CT scan. Soft-tissue mass (arrows) of heterogeneous density, interposed between rectum and coccyx, was thought to be phlegmon rather than frank absc...

A case of acute cervical epidural abscess is presented. The use of intraoperative spinal sonography is discussed as a valuable adjunct in the evaluation and treatment of these uncommon lesions.

Haemophilus paraphrophilus was recovered in pure culture from purulent material collected at surgery from a patient presenting with a spinal epidural abscess and a severe neurological deficit. This is the first report of such an occurrence.

This article describes an immunocompetent patient with a spinal abscess that developed from Nocardia asteroides. Nocardia is a rare etiology for spinal abscesses, especially in immunocompetent patients. Nocardia usually affects the lungs and brain of immunocompromised individuals. Few reports of Nocardia involving bones or the spine have been published.The patient had a history of chronic back ...

We report two cases of cervical spinal epidural abscess (SEA), which are related to anterior cervical surgeries. The first case reveals a late postoperative infection without any predisposing factor. The second case reveals combined complication of infection and instrument failure (artificial disc). Both two cases manifested ascending infections that are unusual courses of anterior cervical inf...