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Microbiologic Analysis of Hand Infections: A Prospective Study.
Surg Infect (Larchmt)
September 2023
Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, Burn Unit, Hospital Sankt Georg, Leipzig, Germany.
Hand infections are a common problem in emergency departments. is the main pathogen of both hand and blood stream infections. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the frequency and impact of bacteremia in patients with hand infections to improve the microbiologic diagnostics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA case of cat bite associated prosthetic joint infection.
IDCases
March 2023
Marshall University School of Medicine, Assistant Professor Division of Infectious Diseases, Medicine Department, Huntington, WV, USA.
Cases of related joint infections are often late in onset, but with the increase in prosthetic joints should be considered, especially in knee infections. Often thought of in relation to animal bites, these infections are further transmitted by nasal secretions, scratches, and licking behavior. We present a case of joint infection in a patient who presented with a classic inciting factor of a cat bite, but presented initially with bacteremia, which obscured the clinical picture.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSeptic arthritis of the fingers: is short-term oral antibiotic therapy appropriate?
Hand Surg Rehabil
April 2022
Centre de la Main, 47 Rue de la Foucaudière, 49800 Trélazé, France. Electronic address:
The management of septic arthritis of the hand is poorly described and there is no consensus. It is based on how septic arthritis of the large joints is managed, despite certain specificities related to the hand, typically involving inpatient management and intravenous antibiotic therapy. The primary objective of this work was to evaluate our postoperative protocol for the management of septic arthritis of the hand with short-term antibiotic therapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOligoarticular Hemarthroses and Osteomyelitis Complicating Pasteurella Meningitis in an Infant.
Children (Basel)
October 2017
Department of Pediatrics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA.
A 5-month-old previously healthy female presented with a one-week history of fever and increased fussiness. Her presentation revealed an ill-appearing infant with an exam and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) studies concerning bacterial meningitis; CSF cultures grew . Additionally, brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated cervical osteomyelitis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPyogenic Arthritis of the Fingers and the Wrist: Can We Shorten Antimicrobial Treatment Duration?
Open Forum Infect Dis
March 2017
Infectious Diseases, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital and.
Background: Pyogenic arthritis of the small joints of the hand and wrist is a known but poorly described entity. The objective of this work was to characterize the clinical presentation, antimicrobial treatment, and surgical interventions of native small joint arthritis (SJA) treated in our tertiary center.
Methods: According to predefined variables, medical records of adult patients with SJA treated in a Swiss university hospital between 2005 and 2013 were retrospectively analyzed.
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