Amid a global shortage of epidural catheters, Newfoundland and Labrador's largest health-care authority says it's developing a plan to reduce the impact on patients about to undergo surgery. In a ...

For patients demonstrated to have epidural abscess, phlegmon, discitis, vertebral osteomyelitis, or arachnoiditis, early consultation with a neurosurgeon to discuss whether surgical management ...

A 60+ year old male patient with HHT type 1 (status post six pulmonary AVM coiled embolisations) with epistaxis presented with intractable back pain, methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) ...

Of the 91 cases reported to CDC since November 4, 2012, a total of 26 (29 percent) were classified as meningitis, 61 (67 percent) had spinal or paraspinal epidural abscess or osteomyelitis, two (2 ...

Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) leads to arteriovenous malformations (AVM) that increase the risk of haemorrhage and cause right-left shunting bypassing the reticuloendothelial system ...