Spontaneous pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis in nondrug users.

Objective: To analyze the clinical, microbiological, and radiologic features of patients without drug addiction suffering from spontaneous pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis.

Methods: We collected all microbiologically proved cases of pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis seen between January 1980 and December 1999 in a teaching hospital. Patients with prior spinal instrumentation or surgery and injection drug users were excluded.

Microalbuminuria is associated with limited joint mobility in type I diabetes mellitus.

Objective: To determine whether limited joint mobility (LJM) is associated with microalbuminuria in type I diabetes mellitus.

Methods: Joint mobility was measured in a control group of 63 healthy subjects and in 63 type I diabetic patients, older than 18 years (mean 31.7 years, range 18-57), recruited from the outpatient clinic of the Endocrine Unit.