Acute Lumbar Pyogenic Spondylitis With Multiple Abscesses Complicated by a Septic Shock That Required Emergency Surgical Open Drainage: A Case Report.

We treated a patient with pyogenic spondylitis complicated by septic shock, who was saved by emergency surgery. The patient was a 75-year-old man with back pain, fever, and weakness in the lower limbs four days before. Upon admission to our hospital, he had tachycardia, tachypnea, fever, and fluctuating vital signs.