Backache in patients on maintenance hemodialysis: Beware of spinal tuberculosis

To the Editor, The incidence of tuberculosis is sixto 16fold higher in uremic patients, and extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is more frequent than pulmonary TB in patients on maintenance hemodialysis as compared with the general population. The STB is hematogenous in origin. Because of the common...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Saudi journal of kidney diseases and transplantation 2015-09, Vol.26 (5), p.1015-1017
Hauptverfasser:	Yadla, Manjusha, Sriramnaveen, P, Kishore, C Krishna, Sivakumar, V, Reddy, Y Sandeep, Sridhar, A V S S N, Vijayalakshmi, B, Lakshmi, A Y
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Antitubercular Agents - therapeutic use Back pain Back Pain - diagnosis Back Pain - drug therapy Back Pain - etiology Back Pain - mortality Hemodialysis Humans Magnetic Resonance Imaging Malnutrition Mortality Pain Measurement Patients Predictive Value of Tests Renal Dialysis Risk Factors Thromboembolism Treatment Outcome Tuberculosis Tuberculosis, Spinal - complications Tuberculosis, Spinal - diagnosis Tuberculosis, Spinal - drug therapy Tuberculosis, Spinal - mortality
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Zusammenfassung:	To the Editor, The incidence of tuberculosis is sixto 16fold higher in uremic patients, and extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is more frequent than pulmonary TB in patients on maintenance hemodialysis as compared with the general population. The STB is hematogenous in origin. Because of the common arterial supply of two vertebral bodies, involvement in the antero-inferior part of one vertebra involves the other, along with the involvement of the intervertebral disc.
ISSN:	1319-2442 2320-3838
DOI:	10.4103/1319-2442.164595