Spinal infections are a relatively rare diagnosis compared to other spine conditions, but they can cause significant damage -- and they may become life threatening in some cases, if left untreated.

COVID-19 infection is associated with ischemic and hemorrhagic spinal stroke, with distinct clinical characteristics and underlying mechanisms.

A recent study in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine identified the rate of infection following posterior lumbar spinal fusion for degenerative spine disease as well as the factors associated with an ...

US health authorities alerted clinicians that some patients who received spinal or paraspinal injections with contaminated methylprednisolone acetate (MPA) from the New England Compounding Center ...

In the results of a recently published study, researchers reported findings that demonstrated a link between the receipt of spinal epidural steroid injections and an increased risk of infection. The ...

Infectious spondylitis is a rare but serious spinal infection, usually from bacteria or other germs. It’s most common after a medical procedure but could occur when an infection elsewhere in your body ...

DEAR DOCTOR K: My doctor wants me to have a spinal tap to help confirm a diagnosis. What happens during a spinal tap? DEAR READER: A spinal tap is also called a lumbar puncture, or “LP” for short.

Learn the difference between a headache from a spinal tap and fungal meningitis. Oct. 16, 2012— -- Jim McGuire said he was relieved when doctors told him his spinal tap tested negative for fungal ...

The meningitis outbreak continues to baffle doctors as new cases emerge. Dec. 12, 2012— -- When Harold Rye came home from his 18-day hospital stay to treat the fungal meningitis he got from a ...

Physicians at Louisville-based Norton Leatherman Spine have linked a rare spine infection, called osteomyelitis, to intravenous heroin use, according to Wave 3 News. “The skin is coated in bacteria ...