André R, Sabeh N
Internal medicine division, Geneva university hospital, rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 4, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
Internal medicine division, Geneva university hospital, rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 4, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
Neurochirurgie. 2017 May;63(2):96-98. doi: 10.1016/j.neuchi.2017.01.006. Epub 2017 May 8.
Post-operative spondylodiscitis due to Propionibacterium acnes is rare, with only a few cases reported in the literature. In this article, we report the case of a 76-year-old patient who suffered from spondylodiscitis T12-L1 discovered after 1 month of pain and fever. Antibiotic treatment was administered for 6 weeks without revision surgery. Diagnosis remains incomplete, and preventive therapy against this infection is not well known. There is no link between immunosuppression and this infection. A cure has been reported in 98% of cases, but further investigation is still required for the establishment of treatment guidelines.
