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Sacro‐iliitis in a heroin addict
Author(s) -
GOMAR C.,
LUIS M.,
NALDA M. A.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1984.tb09509.x
Subject(s) - medicine , heroin , incidence (geometry) , heroin addiction , anesthesia , surgery , psychiatry , drug , physics , optics
Summary A case is presented of a pregnant heroin addict patient, with a septic sacro‐iliitis due to Staphylococcus aureus. The incidence of joint infections in heroin addicts and the difficulty of diagnosis is discussed with the potential risks of spinal or extradural anaesthesia when there is infection in joints close to the needle site. Caution is advised with patients addicted to heroin who have low, back pain and may have infectious sacro‐iliitis.