CASE REPORT
Spondylodiskitis Associated with Epidural
Abscess Due to Brucellosis
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Mustafa Kemal University, School of Medicine, Hatay, Turkey
Publication date: 2011-07-11
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Ömer Evirgen
Department of Infectious Diseases and
Clinical Microbiology, Mustafa Kemal
University Medical School, 31120, Antakya,
Hatay, Turkey
Eur J Gen Med 2011;8(3):253-256
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ABSTRACT
Spondylodiskitis with epidural abscess due to brucellosis is very rare
and serious complication, and it may result in neurological deficits.
Here, we report a 29 year-old male patient with brucellosis causing
spondylodiskitis and spinal epidural abscess resulting in neurological
deficits such as paresis. Surgical therapy is the main approach in the
treatment of the abscess. However, the patient did not accept the
surgery. Therefore, initial drug combination therapy (doxycycline and
rifampicin) was changed to another therapeutic protocol (streptomycin
and doxycycline and rifampicin), and the treatment period was
extended to three months. He was completely cured in aspect of the
disorder and complications. In conclusion, brucellar spinal epidural
abscesses are a rare complication of brucellosis. In contrast to the
high morbidity and mortality rates reported in pyogenic or tuberculosis
abscess, brucellosis with epidural abscess has a good prognosis with
early diagnosis and appropriate treatment.