Journal article
Infectious Myelopathies
Neurologic clinics, Vol.36(4), pp.789-808
11/2018
DOI: 10.1016/j.ncl.2018.06.001
PMID: 30366555
Abstract
Infectious diseases are an important cause of spinal cord dysfunction. Infectious myelopathies are of growing concern given increasing global travel and migration and expanding prevention and treatment with vaccinations, antibiotics, and antiretrovirals. Clinicians must recognize these pathologies because outcomes can dramatically improve with prompt diagnosis and management. We provide a complete review of the most frequent infectious agents that can affect the spinal cord. For each pathogen we describe epidemiology, pathophysiology, anatomic location, characteristic clinical syndromes, diagnostic approach, treatment, and prognosis. The review includes spinal imaging from selected cases.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Infectious Myelopathies
- Creators
- Mayra Montalvo - Department of Neurology, Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, 222 Richmond Street, Providence, RI 02903, USATracey A Cho - Department of Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA. Electronic address: tracey-cho@uiowa.edu
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Neurologic clinics, Vol.36(4), pp.789-808
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ncl.2018.06.001
- PMID
- 30366555
- ISSN
- 0733-8619
- eISSN
- 1557-9875
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/2018
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070470202771
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