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Review
. 2011 Aug 16;7(10):599-604.
doi: 10.1038/nrneph.2011.105.

Spondylodiscitis in a patient on chronic hemodialysis

Masoud Afshar  1 , Robert F Reilly
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Spondylodiscitis in a patient on chronic hemodialysis

Masoud Afshar et al. Nat Rev Nephrol. .

Abstract

Background: A 73-year-old man on hemodialysis with a tunneled central venous catheter presented to the emergency room with a fever and severe back pain.

Investigations: Physical examination, laboratory investigations, chest radiography, lumbar spine radiography, renal ultrasound, lumbosacral spine MRI and transthoracic echocardiography.

Diagnosis: Spondylodiscitis as a result of methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.

Management: Antibiotic therapy with intravenous cefazolin for 6 weeks and oral minocycline for 2 weeks.

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