Osteomyelitis is an inflammation of bone marrow that begins as a bacterial infection and can cause significant bone damage. The condition tends to progress to an area surrounding the bone known as the ...

Osteomyelitis and septic arthritis are two types of infections usually caused by bacteria that affect your musculoskeletal system. Septic arthritis is an infection of the lining and fluid of one or ...

Osteomyelitis is an infection and inflammation of the bone. It can happen when a bacterial or fungal infection enters a bone from the bloodstream or surrounding tissue. A person may have pain, ...

Osteomyelitis is treated by an orthopaedic surgeon, but it should be managed by a multidisciplinary team including infectious disease specialists, surgeons and reconstructive surgeons along with ...

Osteomyelitis is a bone infection that is usually caused by bacteria. Some of the bacteria that lead to this condition are described below. In the majority of cases, osteomyelitis affects the long ...

Bacteria may reach bone through direct inoculation from traumatic wounds, by spreading from adjacent tissue affected by cellulitis or septic arthritis, or through hematogenous seeding. In children, an ...

Osteomyelitis is an infection in your bone. Osteomyelitis in your foot or ankle often develops because you have a wound on your foot that isn’t healing. You can develop osteomyelitis even if you can’t ...

Amanza Smith is a realtor on ‘Selling Sunset,’ who has battled osteomyelitis and had a benign biopsy to treat cancer. Amanza revealed her cancer scare back in May 2023 and underwent surgery for ...

All types of organisms including viruses, bacteria, parasites and fungi can produce osteomyelitic infection. The most common ones are those produced by bacteria; the pyogenic bacteria and tuberculosis ...