| Literature DB >> 21844911 |
Masoud Afshar1, Robert F Reilly.
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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.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21844911 DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2011.105
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Rev Nephrol ISSN: 1759-5061 Impact factor: 28.314