ALLMedicine™ Pyomyositis Center

Mar 3rd, 2021 - Primary pyomyositis is a bacterial muscle infection which may lead to abscess formation and severe complications. Although this condition has long been considered "tropical" and rare, mostly affecting immunocompromised patients, cases of pyomyosit...

Feb 4th, 2021 - Necrotizing soft tissue infection, with or without myositis, is classified among the most dangerous infectious emergencies in clinical practice. The authors report a case of an older diabetic woman who presented to the orthopedic service with righ...

Dec 9th, 2020 - Scabies is an important predisposing factor for impetigo but its role in more serious skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) is not well understood. Information is limited on incidence of SSTIs in the presence of endemic scabies. We conducted a p...

Dec 8th, 2020 - We report the case of an 11-year-old girl with a recent diagnosis of common B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia who presented with Pseudomonas aeruginosa pyomyositis of the left lower limb during severe neutropenia associated with the induction ph...

Nov 2nd, 2020 - Peritonitis and Pyomyositis Complicating Strep Pharyngitis.|2020|Gold JA,Monnett SW,Richmond BK,|

Mar 3rd, 2021 - Primary pyomyositis is a bacterial muscle infection which may lead to abscess formation and severe complications. Although this condition has long been considered "tropical" and rare, mostly affecting immunocompromised patients, cases of pyomyosit...

Feb 4th, 2021 - Necrotizing soft tissue infection, with or without myositis, is classified among the most dangerous infectious emergencies in clinical practice. The authors report a case of an older diabetic woman who presented to the orthopedic service with righ...

Dec 9th, 2020 - Scabies is an important predisposing factor for impetigo but its role in more serious skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) is not well understood. Information is limited on incidence of SSTIs in the presence of endemic scabies. We conducted a p...

Dec 8th, 2020 - We report the case of an 11-year-old girl with a recent diagnosis of common B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia who presented with Pseudomonas aeruginosa pyomyositis of the left lower limb during severe neutropenia associated with the induction ph...

Nov 2nd, 2020 - Peritonitis and Pyomyositis Complicating Strep Pharyngitis.|2020|Gold JA,Monnett SW,Richmond BK,|

Sep 27th, 2006 - Action Points Understand that the prevalence of community-acquired methicillin resistant S. aureus infections is on the increase, and that MRSA strains could be the causative agents of acute bacterial infections of skeletal muscle in children. Ins...

Rates of pyomyositis and myositis also have been on the rise at Texas Children's, and can be correlated to the emergence of CA-MRSA. Among 45 previously healthy children with bacterial pyomyositis or myositis, the cause was S.

VAIL, COLO. — Fever and limp that do not resolve within 2-3 days deserve further work-up.

SAN FRANCISCO — An increase in community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus over the past 5 years was accompanied by an increase in myositis and pyomyositis in children at one hospital, reported Dr. Pia S.

Abstract and Introduction Abstract Background: Pyomyositis is an acute bacterial infection of skeletal muscle that results in localized abscess formation. This infection was thought to be endemic to tropical countries, and is also known as "tropic...