Pseudomonas arthropathy in an older patient

Stuart A. Keynes; Steven L. Due; Biju Paul

doi:10.1093/ageing/afn300

Pseudomonas arthropathy in an older patient

Stuart A. Keynes, Steven L. Due, Biju Paul

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Abstract

Background: septic arthritis caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa is uncommon in the immunocompetent older population, despite its occurrence in younger patients with open injuries and in intravenous drug abusers. Case Report: here we report a case of septic arthritis caused by P. aeruginosa complicated by death in an older patient with recently treated Pseudomonas urinary tract infection. Discussion: the diagnosis of Pseudomonas septic arthritis is made on culturing the organism from synovial fluid aspirate. Concurrent septic arthritis and crystal arthropathy is associated with a high mortality.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	245-246
Number of pages	2
Journal	Age and Ageing
Volume	38
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afn300
Publication status	Published - Mar 2009

Keywords

Arthropathy
Elderly
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Septic arthritis

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