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ArticleThe Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases

Primary pyomyositis and disseminated septic pulmonary emboli: a reactivated staphylococcal infection?

Savvoula Savvidou, Emmanouil Kalogiannis, Kalliopi Tsakiri, Maria Gavra, Afroditi Tsona

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Article in The Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Savvoula Savvidou1st Department of Internal Medicine, "Papageorgiou" General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece. Electronic address: ssavidou@med.auth.gr.
Emmanouil Kalogiannis1st Department of Internal Medicine, "Papageorgiou" General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Kalliopi Tsakiri1st Department of Internal Medicine, "Papageorgiou" General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Maria Gavra1st Department of Internal Medicine, "Papageorgiou" General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Afroditi Tsona1st Department of Internal Medicine, "Papageorgiou" General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece; Department of Infectious Diseases, AHEPA University Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Papageorgiou General Hospital · GR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Staphylococcal pyomyositis is a severe invasive soft tissue infection with high mortality rate that is increasingly being recognized even in temperate climates. In most cases predisposing factors are identified that include either source of skin penetration or/and impaired host immunocompetence. A case of primary, community-acquired pyomyositis of the left iliopsoas muscle in a 59-year-old immunocompetent woman, which was complicated with septic pulmonary emboli within 24h after hospital admission, is presented. The patient was subjected to abscess drainage under computed tomography guidance. Both pus aspiration and blood cultures revealed methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus. Given the absolute absence of predisposing factors and a remote history of staphylococcal osteomyelitis in the same anatomical region 53 years ago, reactivation of a staphylococcal soft tissue infection was postulated. Systematic review of the literature revealed a few interesting cases of reactivated staphylococcal infection after decades of latency, although the exact pathophysiological mechanisms still need to be elucidated.

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AbscessFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMiddle AgedPulmonary EmbolismPyomyositisStaphylococcal InfectionsTomography, X-Ray ComputedPyomyositisReactivationSeptic pulmonary emboliStaphylococcus aureus

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PMID24794885
PMCPMC9427534
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