HAEMOPHILUS-APHROPHILUS BACTEREMIA COMPLICATED WITH VERTEBRAL OSTEOMYELITIS AND SPINAL EPIDURAL ABSCESS IN A PATIENT WITH LIVER-CIRRHOSIS

Authors
HUNG CC HSUEH PR CHEN YC FANG CT CHANG SC LUH KT HSIEH WC
Citation
Cc. Hung et al., HAEMOPHILUS-APHROPHILUS BACTEREMIA COMPLICATED WITH VERTEBRAL OSTEOMYELITIS AND SPINAL EPIDURAL ABSCESS IN A PATIENT WITH LIVER-CIRRHOSIS, The Journal of infection, 35(3), 1997, pp. 304-308
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Infectious Diseases
Journal title
The Journal of infection → ACNP
ISSN journal
01634453
Volume
35
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
304 - 308
Database
ISI
SICI code
0163-4453(1997)35:3<304:HBCWVO>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
Haemophilus aphrophilus is rarely implicated as an aetiology of spinal epidural abscess. A 73-year-old woman with liver cirrhosis who develo ped H. aphrophilus bacteraemia complicated with vertebral osteomyeliti s and spinal epidural abscess is presented, Without surgical decompres sion, she was successfully treated with cefotaxime for 3 weeks, follow ed by maintenance with ciprofloxacin for another 10 weeks. The clinica l features of eight previously reported cases of vertebral osteomyelit is without epidural abscess due to H. aphrophilus are reviewed.