Background
- Risk facors
- IVDU
- DM
- HIV
- Malignancy
- Stroid
- Renal failue
- Sppinal sugey
- Malnutirion
- Age
- Most common organism: Staph Aureus
- Lumbar spine
- Vertebrarl osteeo
- Epidrual, parabetebral or psoas abscess
- Cervical
- Mediastinum, supraclavicular fossa, retrophayneal space
Pediatric
- Vessels go into the disc space (adults they don’t)
- Isolated disc space infection
- Happens more often than in adults
- Lumbar, Staaph auerus (salmonella is sickle cell)
- Age <5
- Symptoms
- Pain, refusal to sit or walk
- Back pain with tenderness
- XR unreliable, use MRI
Investigation
- CBC ESR CRP Blood Cx
- CT guided or open biopsy
- Aerobic, anaerobic, fungal and AFB
- TEE
- TB skin tetst
- XR
- MRI
Management
- IV Abx
- 6 weeks
- 12 weeks in absccess
- Biopsy before
- Empiric if septic
- Surgery
- Failed Non op
- Neuro deficit
- Deformity or instbaility
- Use autograft not cage