Extensive Spinal Cord Injury following Staphylococcus aureus Septicemia and Meningitis

Bacterial meningitis is rarely complicated by spinal cord involvement in adults. We report a case of Staphylococcus aureus septicemia complicated by meningitis and extensive spinal cord injury, leading to ascending brain stem necrosis and death. This complication was investigated by magnetic resonan...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: De Schryver, Nicolas, Cosnard, Guy, van Pesch, Vincent, Godfraind, Catherine, Hantson, Philippe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2011
Materias:
Published: June 2011
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3130894/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21738506
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000329841
_version_ 1782207662551728128
author De Schryver, Nicolas
Cosnard, Guy
van Pesch, Vincent
Godfraind, Catherine
Hantson, Philippe
author_facet De Schryver, Nicolas
Cosnard, Guy
van Pesch, Vincent
Godfraind, Catherine
Hantson, Philippe
author_sort De Schryver, Nicolas
collection PubMed
description Bacterial meningitis is rarely complicated by spinal cord involvement in adults. We report a case of Staphylococcus aureus septicemia complicated by meningitis and extensive spinal cord injury, leading to ascending brain stem necrosis and death. This complication was investigated by magnetic resonance imaging which demonstrated intramedullary hyperintensity on T2-weighted images and by multimodality evoked potentials. Postmortem microscopic examination confirmed that the extensive spinal cord injury was of ischemic origin, caused by diffuse leptomeningitis and endarteritis.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-3130894
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2011
publisher S. Karger AG
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-31308942011-07-07 Extensive Spinal Cord Injury following Staphylococcus aureus Septicemia and Meningitis De Schryver, Nicolas Cosnard, Guy van Pesch, Vincent Godfraind, Catherine Hantson, Philippe Case Rep Neurol Published: June 2011 Bacterial meningitis is rarely complicated by spinal cord involvement in adults. We report a case of Staphylococcus aureus septicemia complicated by meningitis and extensive spinal cord injury, leading to ascending brain stem necrosis and death. This complication was investigated by magnetic resonance imaging which demonstrated intramedullary hyperintensity on T2-weighted images and by multimodality evoked potentials. Postmortem microscopic examination confirmed that the extensive spinal cord injury was of ischemic origin, caused by diffuse leptomeningitis and endarteritis. S. Karger AG 2011-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3130894/ /pubmed/21738506 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000329841 Text en Copyright © 2011 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published: June 2011
De Schryver, Nicolas
Cosnard, Guy
van Pesch, Vincent
Godfraind, Catherine
Hantson, Philippe
Extensive Spinal Cord Injury following Staphylococcus aureus Septicemia and Meningitis
title Extensive Spinal Cord Injury following Staphylococcus aureus Septicemia and Meningitis
title_full Extensive Spinal Cord Injury following Staphylococcus aureus Septicemia and Meningitis
title_fullStr Extensive Spinal Cord Injury following Staphylococcus aureus Septicemia and Meningitis
title_full_unstemmed Extensive Spinal Cord Injury following Staphylococcus aureus Septicemia and Meningitis
title_short Extensive Spinal Cord Injury following Staphylococcus aureus Septicemia and Meningitis
title_sort extensive spinal cord injury following staphylococcus aureus septicemia and meningitis
topic Published: June 2011
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3130894/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21738506
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000329841
work_keys_str_mv AT deschryvernicolas extensivespinalcordinjuryfollowingstaphylococcusaureussepticemiaandmeningitis
AT cosnardguy extensivespinalcordinjuryfollowingstaphylococcusaureussepticemiaandmeningitis
AT vanpeschvincent extensivespinalcordinjuryfollowingstaphylococcusaureussepticemiaandmeningitis
AT godfraindcatherine extensivespinalcordinjuryfollowingstaphylococcusaureussepticemiaandmeningitis
AT hantsonphilippe extensivespinalcordinjuryfollowingstaphylococcusaureussepticemiaandmeningitis

Ejemplares similares