Esmaeilnia Mostafa, Asadi Mona, Sharara Hussein
Department of Neurological Surgery, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran Iran.
Neurologist, Department of neurology Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences Sabzevar Iran.
Clin Case Rep. 2022 Aug 5;10(8):e5997. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.5997. eCollection 2022 Aug.
A 29-year-old man developed subacute posttraumatic ascending myelopathy 5 days after a spinal cord injury. He developed a fever and a blood culture showed an Alkaligenes spp. infection. Despite antibiotic and high-dose corticosteroid therapy, same neurological deficits persisted, and a follow-up MRI showed atrophy and swelling in the cervical cord.
一名29岁男性在脊髓损伤5天后出现亚急性创伤后上升性脊髓病。他出现发热,血培养显示嗜碱杆菌属感染。尽管给予了抗生素和大剂量皮质类固醇治疗,相同的神经功能缺损仍持续存在,后续的磁共振成像显示颈髓萎缩和肿胀。