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Query: UMLS:C0085437 (bacterial meningitis)
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A 63-year-old woman with pancreatic diabetes after a total pancreatectomy and splenectomy developed discitis of the L2/3 intervertebral disk. Rapidly she also developed infectious arthritis of the left knee joint and bacterial meningitis. Aspirate from the left knee contained Enterococcus faecalis. The diagnosis of discitis is generally difficult in the initial period of disease, and patients with diabetes or splenectomy are susceptible to rapid progression of the infection. Early diagnosis of discitis using magnetic resonance imaging of the spine and treatment with antibiotics might have altered her clinical course.
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PMID:Discitis, infectious arthritis, and bacterial meningitis in a patient with pancreatic diabetes. 921 81