Antibiotic therapy should be initiated as soon as the diagnosis of SEA is confirmed. Treating patients with antibiotics alone is a major advance in managing SEA. Rigamonti et al. (1999) recommended ...

Spinal epidural abscess (SEA) is a serious infection of the central nervous system that typically presents with midline back pain, fever and neurological deficits. We report a rare case of an ...

When Maranda Nyborg started feeling under the weather, she didn't think anything of it. It was October, and she usually caught something as the seasons changed. Nyborg, a Division I student athlete at ...

Exploring cases of neurological loss from SEA in patients who were discharged from urgent care and ER departments without diagnostic testing and delays Patients with epidural spinal abscess present to ...

Spinal infections are rare but can be deadly, so you need to get a proper diagnosis as soon as possible if you have spinal pain. Read on to learn more about what spinal infections are, the types of ...

A mum who woke up with a sore back then a week later was in hospital being treated for an abscess in her spinal column which left her paralysed is now set to climb Mount Snowdon in her wheelchair ...

Jo Wright, 62, will climb Mount Snowdon this weekend in her wheelchair to raise money for a spinal cord charity A mum who woke up with a sore back then a week later was in hospital being treated for ...

The spinal epidural space is the area between the spinal cord and the vertebral body. According to Martin and Yuan (1996), the spinal epidural space is a metameric segmented structure, not a uniform ...