A M. avium complex spondylodiscitis in a middle-aged woman with diabetes

Spondylodiscitis, the inflammation of the vertebral bodies and the intervertebral disk space, is the reason for low back pain in a minority of cases. This is caused by various pathogens. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is responsible for 17–39% of all the cases of spondylodiscitis. On the contrast, spond...

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Autores principales: Gerogianni, Irini, Boutlas, Stylianos, Karachalios, Theophilos, Petinaki, Eythymia, Vlychou, Marianna, Gourgoulianis, K.I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5384322/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28413773
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2017.03.020
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Sumario:Spondylodiscitis, the inflammation of the vertebral bodies and the intervertebral disk space, is the reason for low back pain in a minority of cases. This is caused by various pathogens. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is responsible for 17–39% of all the cases of spondylodiscitis. On the contrast, spondylodiscitis from non tuberculous mycobacteria is extremely rare in literature. We describe a 68 -year old diabetic woman which is the first case of bone marrow involvement by M. intracellulare (member of M avium complex)with spondylodiscitis.

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