bursitis/fever

BACKGROUND Bursitis is a common medical condition, and of all the bursae in the body, the olecranon bursa is one of the most frequently affected. Bursitis at this location can be acute or chronic in timing and septic or aseptic. Distinguishing between septic and aseptic bursitis can be difficult,

OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical and microbiological characteristics of septic bursitis in those cases that required treatment at the hospital during the past 10 years in a northwestern area of Spain. METHODS The charts of all patients diagnosed as having septic bursitis at Hospital Xeral-Calde,

Ten cases of septic bursitis in children during a 25 year period were reviewed. Infection occurred in five girls and five boys with a mean age of 9 1/6 years. None had prior bursal disease. Direct trauma or local infection preceded the bursitis in seven children. The involved bursae were prepatellar

Septic ischial bursitis is described in 4 patients with spinal cord injury. In these patients a pre-existing ischial bursitis probably became secondarily infected. Because these patients lack sensation, diagnosis may be difficult. The disease process in one patient with a prolonged fever was only

This article reports the case of a 52-year-old woman with septic arthritis and bursitis of her shoulder. Due to a minor musculoskeletal injury and lack of fever, the diagnosis was missed on her first Emergency Department visit. Sonographic guidance of the shoulder arthrocentesis led to successful

Background. The prepatellar bursa can become inflamed owing to repeated trauma. Prepatellar bursitis is extremely rare in children. Methods. We report the case of an 8-year-old boy who was treated for an erythematous, swollen, and severely painful right knee, fever, inability to bear weight on the

Salmonella is an unusual cause of septic bursitis of the ankle. A 48-yearold male fish-merchant with a history of HIV infection with a CD4 cell count of 79 cells/ml presented with pain of the left ankle for 2 weeks and fever for 1 day. The bursal fluid was aspirated and culture of the fluid revealed

Brucellosis is a systemic infection involving many organs and tissues. The musculoskeletal system is one of the most commonly affected. The disease can present with sacroiliitis, peripheral arthritis, spondylitis, paraspinal abscess, bursitis, and osteomyelitis. A 25-year-old male patient was

Septic bursitis (SB) is an important differential diagnosis in athletes presenting with an acute subcutaneous swelling of the elbow or knee. Prompt recognition is essential to minimize recovery time and prevent the spread of infection. Due to the significant overlap in clinical features, it is often

We report the clinical case of a 76 years-old woman with a subacute trochanteric inflammatory pain with low-grade fever and laboratory markers of acute inflammation, associated with the ultrasonographic evidence of bursitis and radiologic evidence of femoral erosions, that resolved after intravenous

OBJECTIVE To describe the main ultrasound findings of chikungunya fever in the ankle. METHODS This was a cross-sectional observational study involving 52 patients referred to the Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto and presenting with clinical and biochemical evidence of chikungunya fever. The

An 83-year-old woman was admitted to hospital with complaints of fever, abdominal pain and other complaints suggesting urosepsis. Additional analyses did not reveal the cause of her complaints. After cessation of antibiotic therapy, there was a spontaneous decrease in the infection parameters and

Osteoarticular infection is an uncommon presentation of Q fever. Positron emission tomography (PET) scanning is a valuable tool for the diagnosis of Coxiella burnetii graft prosthesis infection and endocarditis. Our objective was to test a series of culture-negative osteoarticular samples using

BACKGROUND The epidemiology, outcome and management of olecranon septic bursitis (OSB) have not been described in a large cohort of ambulatory patients. METHODS A retrospective study of all 118 cases of OSB presenting over 21 months to all regional Home Parenteral Therapy Program clinics in Calgary