Infectious Disease

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Questions discussed in this category

What is your typical duration and route of treatment for a lytic lesion in the metaphysis of a long bone secondary to MSSA, i.e., a Brodie abscess, following debridement in an immunocompetent patient?

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How would you manage an early postoperative spinal implant infection when intraoperative cultures while on antibiotics are negative, no frank purulence or other evidence of infection is observed during washout, but there were fascial defects and fluid tracking down to the hardware?

Burger et al., PMID 33447685

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Do you recommend a prolonged duration of antibiotics and/or suppression for patients without pre-existing hardware who have placement of new hardware after decompression/washout of staph aureus epidural abscess?

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Papers discussed in this category

The New England journal of medicine, 2021 May 27

Antibiotic Therapy for 6 or 12 Weeks for Prosthetic Joint Infection.

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