Epidural abscess related to Streptococcus mitis in a 57-year-old immunocompetent patient

A 57-year-old immunocompetent male patient presented himself to our emergency department with lumbar pain for 10 days, after a lumbar torsion. He was neurologically intact, but showed signs of systemic inflammatory syndrome. A lumbar MRI found a spinal epidural abscess from L3-L4 to L5-S1 levels. Th...

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Autores principales: Prod'homme, Marc, Grasset, Didier, Chalaron, Marc, Boscherini, Duccio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8043008/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33837023
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2020-239295
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description A 57-year-old immunocompetent male patient presented himself to our emergency department with lumbar pain for 10 days, after a lumbar torsion. He was neurologically intact, but showed signs of systemic inflammatory syndrome. A lumbar MRI found a spinal epidural abscess from L3-L4 to L5-S1 levels. The patient was operated early before occurrence of neurological deficit. The abscess cultures found a Streptococcus mitis infection. The patient made a good recovery after surgical decompression, washout with samples taken for cultures and targeted antibiotic therapy for 6 weeks.
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spelling pubmed-80430082021-04-27 Epidural abscess related to Streptococcus mitis in a 57-year-old immunocompetent patient Prod'homme, Marc Grasset, Didier Chalaron, Marc Boscherini, Duccio BMJ Case Rep Case Report A 57-year-old immunocompetent male patient presented himself to our emergency department with lumbar pain for 10 days, after a lumbar torsion. He was neurologically intact, but showed signs of systemic inflammatory syndrome. A lumbar MRI found a spinal epidural abscess from L3-L4 to L5-S1 levels. The patient was operated early before occurrence of neurological deficit. The abscess cultures found a Streptococcus mitis infection. The patient made a good recovery after surgical decompression, washout with samples taken for cultures and targeted antibiotic therapy for 6 weeks. BMJ Publishing Group 2021-04-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8043008/ /pubmed/33837023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2020-239295 Text en © BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2021. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) .
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Epidural abscess related to Streptococcus mitis in a 57-year-old immunocompetent patient
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title_full Epidural abscess related to Streptococcus mitis in a 57-year-old immunocompetent patient
title_fullStr Epidural abscess related to Streptococcus mitis in a 57-year-old immunocompetent patient
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title_short Epidural abscess related to Streptococcus mitis in a 57-year-old immunocompetent patient
title_sort epidural abscess related to streptococcus mitis in a 57-year-old immunocompetent patient
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8043008/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33837023
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2020-239295
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