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Chronic osteomyelitis is more common in males and in the age group from 41-50 years of age. Common infection sites are the femur, tibiofibular, and hip joint. More g+ than g- bacterial infections were observed, with S. aureus the most commonly observed pathogenic organism. The positive ...
The top three infection sites of chronic osteomyelitis - the femur (30.2%), tibiofibular (25.9%) and hip joint (15.3%) – account for 71.4% of all infections. This is consistent with other clinical reports13,14, but differs from the clinical reports of south China. Wanget al.8reports t...
While the majority of pediatric osteomyelitis cases are acute in nature, a significant subset present with prolonged symptoms often associated with substantial morbidity. Little data exist to guide clinicians in the management of these infections. We sought to describe the epidemiology, clinical features...
To describe the epidemiology of pubic osteomyelitis (PO) and to look for factors associated with treatment failure.Retrospective study describing PO according to outcome: success or failure of initial management. Factors associated with failure determined by univariate Cox analysis. Kaplan-Meier curve ...
Risk factors for melioidosis included diabetes (39%), hazardous alcohol use (39%), chronic lung disease (26%) and chronic renal disease (12%). There was no identifiable risk factor in 20%. Of the 77 fatal cases (14%), 75 had at least one risk factor; the other 2 were elderly. ...
When chronic inflammatory or infectious diseases causes Amyloidosis: Amyloid A (AA) Amyloidosis Previously known as secondary or reactive amyloidosis, systemic AA amyloidosis is a long-recognized serious complication of some chronic inflammatory and infectious diseases (such as tuberculosis, osteomyelitis, rh...
Mucormycosis is an angioinvasive fungal infection due to fungi of the order Mucorales. Depending on the clinical presentation it is classified as rhinocerebral, pulmonary, cutaneous, gastrointestinal, disseminated or other, which includes uncommon rare forms, such as endocarditis, osteomyelitis, peritoniti...
In addition, consider performing infection workup to evaluate for possible discitis, epidural abscess, and vertebral osteomyelitis. Plain cervical spine radiographs are used to evaluate chronic degenerative changes, metastatic disease, infection, spinal deformity, and stability. Computed tomography (CT) ...
Pott's Puffy Tumor (PPT), subperiosteal abscess and frontal bone osteomyelitis (Sir Percival Pott in 1760), today is a complication of chronic pansinusitis and is associated with intracranial extension. This study describes the epidemiology, clinical manifestations, treatment, outcome, and ...