Osteomyelitis

2023: Siberia develops new way to diagnose osteomyelitis with MRI

The Siberian State Medical University (SibGMU) has developed a new way to diagnose osteomyelitis using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The press service of the university told about this on February 20, 2023.

A group of patients for whom minimal trauma is important underwent single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Study participants were assigned a score depending on the combination of the identified symptoms of the disease. Thus, it is possible to diagnose osteomyelitis in a patient with high accuracy without violating the integrity of the lower extremities, explained in the Siberian State Medical University. No additional studies are required.

Siberian State Medical University (SibGMU)

The Siberian State Medical University noted that diabetic foot syndrome (DFS) is one of the most serious complications of diabetes mellitus, in which soft and bone tissues of the foot are affected. It is almost impossible to notice the symptoms of this disease in the early stages. Its course can be worsened by the occurrence of intraosseous inflammation - osteomyelitis, which in 30-50% of cases leads to amputation of the limb. According to WHO, by 2023, more than 220 million people in the world have diabetes. At the same time, SDS is observed in 3-13% of patients with diabetes mellitus of the first and second types.

It is explained that SDS is directly associated with impaired innervation and blood flow in the lower extremities, which leads to a deterioration in temperature and pain sensitivity. For example, a person with diabetes mellitus may not feel the temperature of water and get burned or do not feel pain when calluses appear from uncomfortable shoes. At the same time, even a minor wound can turn into a long-term non-healing ulcer, added to the Siberian State Medical University.^[1]

2022: Installation of a 3D talus implant in a patient with osteomyelitis, for the first time in Russia

As it became known in March 2022, the doctors of the Clinic of Purulent Osteology of the Ilizarov Center installed a titanium implant of the talus of the ankle joint manufactured by FSUE "CITO" using 3D technologies. Such an operation was carried out in Russia for the first time. Read more here.

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