Open AccessInfection with spinal instrumentation: A 20-year, single-institution experience with review of pathogenesis, diagnosis, prevention, and management
Author(s) -
Fotios Kalfas,
Paolo Severi,
Claudia Scudieri
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
asian journal of neurosurgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1793-5482
DOI - 10.4103/ajns.ajns_129_19
Subject(s) - medicine , spondylodiscitis , implant , spinal fusion , surgery , infection control , magnetic resonance imaging , radiology
Instrumentation has become an integral component in the management of various spinal pathologies. The rate of infection varies from 2% to 20% of all instrumented spinal procedures. Postoperative spinal implant infection places patients at risk for pseudo-arthrosis, correction loss, spondylodiscitis, and adverse neurological sequelae and increases health-care costs.