What is Osteomyelitis?
What is Osteomyelitis?
- Osteomyelitis: A bone inflammation caused by bacteria. The inflammation usually originates in another part of the body and is transported to the bone via the blood.
- Osteomyelitis: an inflammation of bone and bone marrow (usually caused by bacterial infection).
Source - WordNet 2.1
Osteomyelitis: Introduction
Types of Osteomyelitis:
Types of Osteomyelitis:
- Acute osteomyelitis
- Chronic osteomyelitis
- Spinal osteomyelitis
- Bacterial osteomyelitis
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Broader types of Osteomyelitis:
How serious is Osteomyelitis?
Complications of Osteomyelitis:
see complications of Osteomyelitis
What causes Osteomyelitis?
Causes of Osteomyelitis: see causes of Osteomyelitis
Cause of Osteomyelitis: Usually bacterial infection such as staphyloccus.
Risk factors for Osteomyelitis:
see
risk factors for Osteomyelitis
What are the symptoms of Osteomyelitis?
Symptoms of Osteomyelitis:
see symptoms of Osteomyelitis
Complications of Osteomyelitis:
see complications of Osteomyelitis
Osteomyelitis: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Osteomyelitis.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Osteomyelitis.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Osteomyelitis:
see treatments for Osteomyelitis
Research for Osteomyelitis:
see research for Osteomyelitis
Society issues for Osteomyelitis
Hospitalization statistics for Osteomyelitis:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Osteomyelitis:
- 0.033% (4,224) of hospital consultant episodes were for osteomyelitis in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 80% of hospital consultant episodes for osteomyelitis required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 64% of hospital consultant episodes for osteomyelitis were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 36% of hospital consultant episodes for osteomyelitis were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 54% of hospital consultant episodes for osteomyelitis required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 16.2 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for osteomyelitis in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 8 days was the median length of stay in hospitals for osteomyelitis in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Organs Affected by Osteomyelitis:
Organs and body systems related to Osteomyelitis include:
Name and Aliases of Osteomyelitis
Main name of condition: Osteomyelitis
Other names or spellings for Osteomyelitis:
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