ALLMedicine™ Osteomyelitis Center

Jul 26th, 2021 - A case of osteomyelitis caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) Pseudomonas aeruginosa is reported. An 84-year-old Caucasian male with an underlying history of type 2 diabetes, peripheral vascular disease, and coronary artery disease had chronic nonhe...

Jul 24th, 2021 - Mandibular osteomyelitis in paediatric population presents as painful swelling with progressive trismus. Often the aetiology for this form of progressive osteomyelitis is inconclusive. The infective aetiology in this condition is difficult to assi...

Jul 21st, 2021 - Osteopetrosis (marble bone disease) is a family of rare genetic disorders characterized by impaired osteoclast function leading to hyperdense, hypovascular, brittle bone. Typical imaging shows increased bone mass and thickened cortical and trabecu...

Jul 20th, 2021 - Sternoclavicular joint osteomyelitis is extremely rare, with only 225 reported cases in the last 45 years. We present an unusual case in an otherwise healthy 55-year-old man with a history of well-controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertensi...

Jul 19th, 2021 - CORR Insights®: Treatment Guideline for Patients with Native Culture-negative Pyogenic Vertebral Osteomyelitis.|2021|Korovessis P,|

Nov 5th, 2018 - Imaging plays in important role in the evaluation of the acutely limping child. The decision-making process about initial imaging must consider the level of suspicion for infection and whether symptoms can be localized. The appropriateness of spec...

May 5th, 2017 - Infection of the musculoskeletal system is a common clinical problem. Differentiating soft tissue from osseous infection often determines the appropriate clinical therapeutic course. Radiographs are the recommend initial imaging examination, and a...

May 5th, 2017 - Stress fractures, including both fatigue and insufficiency types, are frequently encountered in clinical practice as a source of pain in both athletes and patients with predisposing conditions. Radiography is the imaging modality of choice for bas...

Jul 31st, 2015 - These guidelines are intended for use by infectious disease specialists, orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, radiologists, and other healthcare professionals who care for patients with native vertebral osteomyelitis (NVO). They include evidence an...

May 23rd, 2012 - Foot infections are a common and serious problem in persons with diabetes. Diabetic foot infections (DFIs) typically begin in a wound, most often a neuropathic ulceration. While all wounds are colonized with microorganisms, the presence of infecti...

Apr 29th, 2020 - Subjects will be consented during a scheduled visit for standard care at the Clements University Hospital, UT Southwestern Wound Clinic, Parkland Hospital or the Parkland ASC Wound Clinic. There will be 2 study visits: Baseline and operating room ...

Mar 10th, 2020 - Distal radius fractures (DRF) are up to 20% of all diagnosed fractures and are the most commonly treated fractures in adult orthopedic patients. DRF occur in distal third of the radius bone, located less than 2.5 cm from the radiocarpal joint. In ...

Nov 17th, 2019 - Spinal bone infections can involve the bone vertebra, intervertebral disc space, spinal canal and soft tissues. It generate neurological deficit in addition to the destruction of the bone that causes functional disability and significant pain (Col...

Nov 12th, 2019 - Diabetic foot osteomyelitis is a common and serious complication of diabetes. While the diagnosis of soft tissue infection can be made with simple physical examination in most cases, bone involvement can be harder to diagnose, often requiring medi...

Oct 21st, 2019 - The primary objective of this study is to determine the number of successful complete wound closures within 12 weeks of treatment with MIRODERM Fenestrated Biological Wound Matrix. Some secondary objectives of this study include documenting the ti...

May 27th, 2021 - Imagine a hospitalist, part of a group with 35 hospitalists, is in her second year of practice and is caring for a 55-year-old woman with a history of congestive heart failure and cirrhosis from hepatitis C due to heroin use. The patient was hospi...

Jul 8th, 2020 - Pasteurella multocida infection is the most common infection contracted from cat bites. It may also be complicated by sepsis. Wound infections associated with animal bites usually have a polymicrobial etiology. Complications include rapidly progre...

Apr 23rd, 2020 - Diabetic nephropathy is usually considered after a routine urinalysis and screening for microalbuminuria in patients with diabetes mellitus. However, patients may have physical findings concordant with long-standing diabetes, such as peripheral va...

Mar 23rd, 2020 - MAUI, HAWAII – Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO) in children and SAPHO syndrome in adults may well be a single clinical syndrome. Bruce Jancin/MDedge News Dr.

Jan 28th, 2020 - What you’ll see. Clinical signs and symptoms include pain in the pulp of the finger with tenderness and swelling.