ALLMedicine™ Osteomyelitis Center

Mar 2nd, 2021 - Bacterial osteomyelitis of the scapula is rare in pediatric patients. When it occurs, it usually affects young infants and patients often exhibit fever and functional limitation of the extremity. We present a case of a 12-year-old boy with subacut...

Feb 28th, 2021 - Skull baseosteomyelitis (SBO) is a rare phenomenon that typically occurs in diabetic or immunocompromised patients, causing significant morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to analyze a single institution's treatment results in SBO patients a...

Feb 28th, 2021 - HACEK (Haemophilus spp., Aggregatibacter spp., Cardiobacterium spp., Eikenella corrodens, and Kingella spp.) group organisms are responsible for 0.8% to 6% of all infective endocarditis cases, with Cardiobacterium spp. being the third most commonl...

Feb 25th, 2021 - Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis (DFO) is a common infection where treatment involves multiple services including Infectious Disease (ID), Podiatry, and Pathology. Despite its ubiquity in the hospital, consensus on much of its management is lacking. Re...

Feb 23rd, 2021 - To investigate the molecular pathogenesis of bone with osteomyelitis, we developed implant-associated osteomyelitis (IAOM) models in mice. An orthopedic stainless pin was surgically placed in the right femoral mid-shaft of mice followed by an inoc...

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...

Apr 30th, 2017 - Infection of the musculoskeletal system is a common clinical problem. Differentiating soft tissue from osseous infection often determines the appropriate clinical therapeutic course.

Sep 14th, 2015 - Native vertebral osteomyelitis (NVO) in adults is often the result of hematogenous seeding of the adjacent disc space from a distant focus, as the disc is avascular [1, 2]. The diagnosis of NVO can often be delayed several months and may initially.

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...

Mar 2nd, 2021 - Bacterial osteomyelitis of the scapula is rare in pediatric patients. When it occurs, it usually affects young infants and patients often exhibit fever and functional limitation of the extremity. We present a case of a 12-year-old boy with subacut...

Feb 28th, 2021 - Skull baseosteomyelitis (SBO) is a rare phenomenon that typically occurs in diabetic or immunocompromised patients, causing significant morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to analyze a single institution's treatment results in SBO patients a...

Feb 28th, 2021 - HACEK (Haemophilus spp., Aggregatibacter spp., Cardiobacterium spp., Eikenella corrodens, and Kingella spp.) group organisms are responsible for 0.8% to 6% of all infective endocarditis cases, with Cardiobacterium spp. being the third most commonl...

Feb 25th, 2021 - Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis (DFO) is a common infection where treatment involves multiple services including Infectious Disease (ID), Podiatry, and Pathology. Despite its ubiquity in the hospital, consensus on much of its management is lacking. Re...

Feb 23rd, 2021 - To investigate the molecular pathogenesis of bone with osteomyelitis, we developed implant-associated osteomyelitis (IAOM) models in mice. An orthopedic stainless pin was surgically placed in the right femoral mid-shaft of mice followed by an inoc...

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.

Nov 13th, 2019 - ATLANTA – Tumor necrosis factor inhibitors almost quadrupled the risk of psoriasis in children with inflammatory bowel disease, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, or chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis in a review of 4,111 patients at the Children’s Ho.