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Spinal osteomyelitis and diskitis: a rare complication following orthotopic heart transplantation
S Datta1, I R Hussain, B Madden
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. George's Hospital, London, UK.
Abstract:
We describe a 55-year-old man who developed spinal osteomyelitis and diskitis 14 months after orthotopic heart transplantation. The infective organism was Staphylococcus aureus and the patient was successfully treated with flucloxacillin and fusidic acid.

