TY - JOUR
T1 - Spondylodiscitis in a patient on chronic hemodialysis
AU - Afshar, Masoud
AU - Reilly, Robert F.
PY - 2011/10
Y1 - 2011/10
N2 - Background. A 73-year-old man on hemodialysis with a tunneled central venous catheter presented to the emergency room with a fever and severe back pain.Investigations. Physical examination, laboratory investigations, chest radiography, lumbar spine radiography, renal ultrasound, lumbosacral spine MRI and transthoracic echocardiography.Diagnosis. Spondylodiscitis as a result of methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.Management. Antibiotic therapy with intravenous cefazolin for 6 weeks and oral minocycline for 2 weeks.
AB - Background. A 73-year-old man on hemodialysis with a tunneled central venous catheter presented to the emergency room with a fever and severe back pain.Investigations. Physical examination, laboratory investigations, chest radiography, lumbar spine radiography, renal ultrasound, lumbosacral spine MRI and transthoracic echocardiography.Diagnosis. Spondylodiscitis as a result of methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.Management. Antibiotic therapy with intravenous cefazolin for 6 weeks and oral minocycline for 2 weeks.
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U2 - 10.1038/nrneph.2011.105
DO - 10.1038/nrneph.2011.105
M3 - Article
C2 - 21844911
AN - SCOPUS:80053341744
SN - 1759-5061
VL - 7
SP - 599
EP - 604
JO - Nature Reviews Nephrology
JF - Nature Reviews Nephrology
IS - 10
ER -