Spontaneous disc space infections in adults

Surgical Neurology
Jonathan A FriedmanMichael J Ebersold

Abstract

Spontaneous discitis typically affects children; much less is known about the disease in adults. We examined the clinical characteristics and the role of surgery in spontaneous infectious discitis in adults. Twenty-nine consecutive adult patients (16 men, 13 women) with spontaneous infectious discitis were treated by a single surgeon (MJE) over a 5-year period. These patients were compared to 19 consecutive patients with postoperative discitis over the same time period. Mean follow-up was 2.4 years. The average age of patients with spontaneous discitis was 69.0 years. Eleven of these patients (38%) were diabetic and 9 (31%) had a known concurrent infection. Infections occurred at cervical (10%), thoracic (34%), and lumbar interspaces (59%), and at multiple disc spaces in eight cases (28%). Ten patients (34%) had an elevated serum leukocyte count and 21 patients (72%) had an elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate. While Gram-positive infection was most common, a broad spectrum of microbes was isolated. All patients were treated with i.v. antibiotics for a mean duration of 6 weeks. Four patients required surgical fusion; the rest were treated with external immobilization. At follow-up, 21 patients (72%) were symptom-free, 3 pati...Continue Reading

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