Intervertebral disc space infection caused by Aspergillus fumigatus
| Autor: | E. W. Lang, L. H. Pitts |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
| Předmět: |
musculoskeletal diseases
medicine.medical_specialty Pathology Antifungal Agents Discitis Fulminant Lumbar vertebrae Aspergillosis Aspergillus fumigatus Fatal Outcome Amphotericin B medicine Humans Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Infusions Intravenous Intervertebral Disc Lumbar Vertebrae biology business.industry Osteomyelitis Biopsy Needle Laminectomy Intervertebral disc Middle Aged biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Magnetic Resonance Imaging Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure Female business Tomography X-Ray Computed medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society. 5(3) |
| ISSN: | 0940-6719 |
| Popis: | The authors describe the case of a 53-year-old woman who suffered from an Aspergillus fumigatus infection of the L2/3 intervertebral disc space unrelated to previous operations on her lumbar spine. After surgical debridement combined with amphotericin therapy she died on the 23rd postoperative day from a fulminant bacterial sepsis of pulmonary origin. Although she had intermittently used steroids for bronchial asthma, this is an unusual case of fungal infection of the lumbar spine in an apparently immunocompetent patient. |
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