Spinal Tuberculosis: Features and Early Predictive Factors of Poor Outcomes
INTRODUCTION: Tuberculosis is still endemic in Tunisia. Among musculoskeletal involvement, spinal tuberculosis (STB) or «Pott’s Disease» is the most common and can lead to serious neurological complications. The purpose of our study was to focus on STB features (clinical, biological, and radiologica...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10466368/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37654630 http://dx.doi.org/10.31138/mjr.34.2.220 |
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author | Boussaid, Soumaya M’rabet, Mariem Rekik, Sonia Jammali, Samia Rahmouni, Safa Zouaoui, Khaoula Sahli, Hela Elleuch, Mohamed |
author_facet | Boussaid, Soumaya M’rabet, Mariem Rekik, Sonia Jammali, Samia Rahmouni, Safa Zouaoui, Khaoula Sahli, Hela Elleuch, Mohamed |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Tuberculosis is still endemic in Tunisia. Among musculoskeletal involvement, spinal tuberculosis (STB) or «Pott’s Disease» is the most common and can lead to serious neurological complications. The purpose of our study was to focus on STB features (clinical, biological, and radiological) and to identify factors associated with early unfavorable outcomes. METHODS: This was a monocentric retrospective study, over a period of 20 years (2000–2020). Only patients treated appropriately were included. Patients’ informations were noted. We defined the favorable outcome criterion as weight gain, apyrexia, improvement of the general state, relief of pain, improvement in the classic inflammatory markers (CRP), and absence of vertebral deformities, neurological impairment, or sepsis. The outcome was considered unfavorable otherwise. RESULTS: Our study involved 52 patients. Their average age was 55.21 years±17.79. The average symptom duration was 8.9 months±6.54. Spinal pain was the most common functional sign (90.4%) often inflammatory. Physical signs were dominated by segmental spinal stiffness (71.2%). Spinal magnetic resonance imaging was performed in 38 patients. The disco-vertebral biopsy puncture confirmed the diagnosis in 15 cases. All patients received anti-tuberculosis treatments with an average duration of 10.02±1.97months. The outcome at one month of follow-up was favorable in 32 cases. Poor prognosis factors were normochromic normocytic anaemia (p=0.018), initial lymphocytosis (p=0.048), and fever (p=0.01). However, vertebral fracture at standard X-ray was predictive of favorable outcome (p=0.001). CONCLUSION: STB is a frequent condition that needs to be treated rapidly. Poor prognosis factors were identified in this study such as normocytic normochromic anemia, initial lymphocytosis, and fever at baseline. |
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spelling | pubmed-104663682023-08-31 Spinal Tuberculosis: Features and Early Predictive Factors of Poor Outcomes Boussaid, Soumaya M’rabet, Mariem Rekik, Sonia Jammali, Samia Rahmouni, Safa Zouaoui, Khaoula Sahli, Hela Elleuch, Mohamed Mediterr J Rheumatol Original Paper INTRODUCTION: Tuberculosis is still endemic in Tunisia. Among musculoskeletal involvement, spinal tuberculosis (STB) or «Pott’s Disease» is the most common and can lead to serious neurological complications. The purpose of our study was to focus on STB features (clinical, biological, and radiological) and to identify factors associated with early unfavorable outcomes. METHODS: This was a monocentric retrospective study, over a period of 20 years (2000–2020). Only patients treated appropriately were included. Patients’ informations were noted. We defined the favorable outcome criterion as weight gain, apyrexia, improvement of the general state, relief of pain, improvement in the classic inflammatory markers (CRP), and absence of vertebral deformities, neurological impairment, or sepsis. The outcome was considered unfavorable otherwise. RESULTS: Our study involved 52 patients. Their average age was 55.21 years±17.79. The average symptom duration was 8.9 months±6.54. Spinal pain was the most common functional sign (90.4%) often inflammatory. Physical signs were dominated by segmental spinal stiffness (71.2%). Spinal magnetic resonance imaging was performed in 38 patients. The disco-vertebral biopsy puncture confirmed the diagnosis in 15 cases. All patients received anti-tuberculosis treatments with an average duration of 10.02±1.97months. The outcome at one month of follow-up was favorable in 32 cases. Poor prognosis factors were normochromic normocytic anaemia (p=0.018), initial lymphocytosis (p=0.048), and fever (p=0.01). However, vertebral fracture at standard X-ray was predictive of favorable outcome (p=0.001). CONCLUSION: STB is a frequent condition that needs to be treated rapidly. Poor prognosis factors were identified in this study such as normocytic normochromic anemia, initial lymphocytosis, and fever at baseline. The Mediterranean Journal of Rheumatology (MJR) 2023-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10466368/ /pubmed/37654630 http://dx.doi.org/10.31138/mjr.34.2.220 Text en © 2023 The Mediterranean Journal of Rheumatology (MJR) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This work is licensed under and Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Boussaid, Soumaya M’rabet, Mariem Rekik, Sonia Jammali, Samia Rahmouni, Safa Zouaoui, Khaoula Sahli, Hela Elleuch, Mohamed Spinal Tuberculosis: Features and Early Predictive Factors of Poor Outcomes |
title | Spinal Tuberculosis: Features and Early Predictive Factors of Poor Outcomes |
title_full | Spinal Tuberculosis: Features and Early Predictive Factors of Poor Outcomes |
title_fullStr | Spinal Tuberculosis: Features and Early Predictive Factors of Poor Outcomes |
title_full_unstemmed | Spinal Tuberculosis: Features and Early Predictive Factors of Poor Outcomes |
title_short | Spinal Tuberculosis: Features and Early Predictive Factors of Poor Outcomes |
title_sort | spinal tuberculosis: features and early predictive factors of poor outcomes |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10466368/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37654630 http://dx.doi.org/10.31138/mjr.34.2.220 |
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