Vertebral osteomyelitis caused by Mycobacteroides abscessus subsp. abscessus resulting in spinal cord injury due to vertebral body fractures

Author(s):  
Keitaro Omori ◽  
Hiroki Kitagawa ◽  
Kayoko Tadera ◽  
Yasuhiko Naka ◽  
Shinjiro Sakamoto ◽  
...  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4S) ◽  
pp. 130-134
Author(s):  
N. I. Zagorodnikov ◽  
I. K. Halivopulo ◽  
A. V. Sotnikov ◽  
E. I. Ardasheva

Percutaneous Vertebroplasty (PVP) is the minimally invasive radiological procedure consisting in the transdermal injection of bone cement into the damaged vertebral body. PVP performing has a high risk of complications including vascular embolism which has value from 3.5 to 30 %. There is an example of cardioembolism with bone cement as a result of PVP complication after surgical treatment of a patient with a spinal cord injury after ancar accident and the successful extraction of this embolus is given in this clinical case.The authors describe the approaches to this problem, including the diagnosis of the condition and treatment options.


Spine ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (10) ◽  
pp. E657-E659
Author(s):  
Tetsuya Shimokawa ◽  
Kei Miyamoto ◽  
Akira Hioki ◽  
Takahiro Masuda ◽  
Haruhiko Akiyama ◽  
...  

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