Spondylitis without epidural abscess formation following short-term use of an epidural catheter.

Abstract:

:A 42-year-old patient had undergone total hip replacement for aseptic femoral head necrosis 9 years previously. He now presented with loosening of the prosthesis and pseudoarthrosis sustained following a femoral shaft fracture 7 months earlier. A total hip replacement was carried out in general anaesthesia combined with an epidural catheter. The epidural catheter was removed on the third postoperative day, after which the patient complained of persistent lumbar pain which was associated with meningismus, fever, leucocytosis and a raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate. In spite of intensive laboratory and radiological investigation, 15 weeks elapsed before a radiological diagnosis of spondylitis of L1 and L2 could be made. Aspiration biopsy of the L1/L2 disc space yielded a growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Antibiotic therapy was begun immediately but could not prevent spread of infection to the adjacent disc-space T12/L1 and the vertebral body T12. The patient made a slow recovery and was discharged in a satisfactory condition wearing a lumbar brace some 9 months after the operation. No evidence of epidural abscess formation was found at any stage and no direct connection between the use of the epidural catheter and spondylitis could be established.

authors

Lynch J,Zech D

doi

10.1111/j.1399-6576.1990.tb03064.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1990-02-01 00:00:00

pages

167-70

issue

2

eissn

0001-5172

issn

1399-6576

journal_volume

34

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