The Review of Our Chronic Osteomyelitis Cases

The Review of Our Chronic Osteomyelitis Cases

Özlem KANDEMİR, Volkan ÖZTUNA, Mehmet Colak, Elif Şahin, Ali KAYA

In this study, we have presented the laboratory and clinical findings, and treatment and follow-up results of 32 patients with osteomyelitis treated in both Infectious Disease Clinics and Orthopaedics & Traumatology departments of our university hospital between January 1999 and December 2001. Eleven female patients with a mean age of 45.9 ± 20.0 (15-80), and twenty-one male patients with a mean age of 53.4 ± 15.5 (28-82) were included in this study. The patients have had several risk factors rendering them predisposed to osteomyelitis. Staphylococcus aureus was the most frequently isolated microorganism (%46). The mean pretreatment and posttreatment C-reactive protein levels and sedimentation rates were different and the difference was statistically significant; but we could not find any difference between the white blood cell counts (p= 0.000, p= 0.022, p= 0.258 respectively). Despite of the medical and surgical treatment modalities, recurrence of the disease was detected in 6 patients. The mean time of treatment was 10.2 ± 9.3 (5-24) weeks and the mean follow up was 15.5 ± 7.5 (6-27) months. In conclusion, chronic osteomyelitis needs long term follow-up because of high rate of recurrence and resistance to treatment.

2002

Chronic osteomyelitis, Risk factors, clinical findings, laboratory findings

DOI:

Flora Infeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Dergisi

Bilimsel Tip Yayinevi

Infectious and parasitic diseases, Microbiology

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