Osteomyelitis: Bone Infection

Osteopetrosis is a rare, genetic disease that causes extremely dense and brittle bones. This is because individuals affected with osteopetrosis do not have normal osteoclasts, which bones need to work correctly. Healthy bones require properly functioning osteoblasts and osteoclasts. Osteoblasts are responsible for making new bones and osteoclasts are bone cells that are responsible for bone resorption, which is the breaking down of bones and providing space for new bone marrow to grow. An individual with osteopetrosis has osteoclasts that do not function properly, therefore their bones are not healthy (Stocks, Wang, Thompson, Stocks, & Horwitz, 1998).

skin condition that staph is able to cause is cellulitis. It is more common in people who have a weakened immune system such as people who are immunocompromised, infants, and the elderly. Cellulitis is characterized by a red, warm patch on the skin paired with a fever. “The bacteria that cause cellulitis can spread rapidly, entering lymph nodes and your bloodstream. Recurrent episodes of cellulitis may cause chronic swelling of the affected limb” (Mayo, 2015). Cellulitis is spread extremely easily, and is a big issue within long term care facilities. The infection can be cured by antibiotics. However, there are cases reported stating that cellulitis is becoming resistant to some antibiotics. The doctor can order a culture to send to pathology.

1. A healthy high school athlete is diagnosed with fever and cellulitis of the right knee. The infection is resistant to oral antibiotics. He then develops osteomyelitis of the right knee. If untreated, the infection could result in

Osgood-Schlatter, or osteochondrosis, is a disease that occurs on the upper part of the shinbone, just below the knee. There is a painful bump called the anterior tibial tubercle that swells in this area. Fortunately, this disease does not endanger one’s life. Osgood-Schlatter affects adolescents whose legs are still in the process of growing during puberty.

Osteogenesis imperfecta can range from mild to severe and the symptoms are different in each person, and category of the disease. Some of the symptoms that could manifest the people who suffer osteogenesis imperfecta are malformations of the bones, short stature and small body, loose joints, weak muscles, curved spine, brittle teeth, respiratory problems, failures of collagen type 1, lack of collagen, and deafness (). In addition, height is often to be normal. Fractures are not usually present at birth but appear when the patient begins to walk and falls to the ground during the growth period. Usually, the frequency of fractures decreases in adulthood, where hearing loss may

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection is caused by a type of staph bacteria that's become resistant to many of the antibiotics used to treat ordinary staph infections. This can allow the infections to spread and sometimes become life-threatening. MRSA infections may affect your bloodstream, lungs, heart, bones, and joints. Most MRSA infections occur in people who've been in hospitals or other health care settings, such as nursing homes and dialysis centers. When it occurs in these settings, it's known as health care-associated MRSA. HA-MRSA infections typically are associated with invasive procedures or devices, such as surgeries, intravenous tubing or artificial joints. Another type of MRSA infection has occurred in

Based on the data, Staphylococcus aureus was found on the skin. We sampled the doorknob which is important because the doorknob is a constantly used fomite that transfers bacteria from person to person.

Osteoclasts break down bone tissue during the remodeling of bones. The malignant infantile form happens when an infant inherits a copy of the defective gene from both of the parents. For the adult form to occur, however, only one defective gene is necessary. Most of the time, however, the inherited gene is not what causes osteopetrosis. Normally the adult form is caused by a newly formed defective gene that came about at the time of

Bacterial infective arthritis is an infective arthritis. A deep wound that penetrates a joint is a direct source of bacterial infection. But usually the infection is elsewhere, in a cut or abscessed teeth or boils, in a sickness caused by Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, or Proteus bacteria. The arthritis these cause is accompanied by high fever and chills. Gonorrhea, a sexually

After microorganisms enter the patient’s body they can go to the lungs and cause pneumonia. Central line-bloodstream infections occur when microorganism enter the bloodstream by the intravenous line. Microorganisms are transfer into the blood stream by inadequate hand hygiene or improper intravenous fluid, tubing, and site care practice. Multidrug-resistant organisms can cause infections of the blood, skin, or organ systems. These infections can arise due to the overuse or misuse of antibiotics, which can result in the microorganisms becoming more resistant to antibiotic therapy. Methicillin-resistant Staphyloccocus aureus and Clostridium difficile are examples of this kind of infection. Health care employees need to know the different types of hospital acquired infections and how they are spread to be able to effectively prevent them.

The span of this narrative takes place Thirty years prior to current time, in Two Thousand and Seventeen. At the time I was a young and well educated Osteopathic surgeon, however I had quite little experience with the field as the majority of patients came for infections in the foot rather than bone and muscle pain. I remember I had a child patient on the first week of 2017, a young man no older than 5 with a horrid infection within his big toe due to the digging of the nail. But nitrogen wasn’t able to fix it, so he had to have a quarter of his foot removed in an unnecessarily long procedure. This wasn't the first time this had happened, however I had grown tired of infection. Only people who deserved a bad condition should have it.

MRSA, or methacillin-resistant Staphyloccus aureus, is a staph infection that is resistant to many antibiotics that are used to cure staph infections. According to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, MRSA is the most common cause of skin infections and in some cases if not treated can become as severe as sepsis which can be life threatening. (Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, 2016, Para 1) MRSA is spread from skin to skin contact and once it has infected the host, and becomes more severe it has the ability to spread into the bloodstream, joints, bones and even organs. Severe cases of MRSA are typically seen in health care facilities. (Jatin M. Vyas, 2016, Para 4) Along with improper hand hygiene being a mode of transmission, patients are also able to contract the infection by coming in contact with contaminated bed linens, the bed or medical equipment.(CDC, 2016, Para

Today, I observed Dr. Koch in podiatry again. The first patient I observed had half of their right foot amputated, which might have been from osteomyelitis. The patient received an operations to amputate half of their foot. The only problem was the recovery time after the operation. Normally, patients wait at least two weeks to remove any sutures on their feet after an operation. However, one of Dr. Koch’s assistants had removed the sutures from the operation one week after the operation instead of two. So when the patient tried to put any weight on the foot after removing the sutures, the wound instantly bursted open. Some time ago, a vascular surgeon bypassed the veins in the foot and removed the right big toe along with the metatarsal.

Paget’s disease of the bone (PDB), also called Osteitis Deformans, is a chronic, slowly progressive skeletal condition of abnormally rapid bone destruction and reformation. PDB is the second most common bone remodeling disease after osteoporosis. The new bone is structurally abnormal, dense and fragile. The bones that are frequently affected are in the spine, skull, pelvis and lower legs. The disease does not spread bone to bone, it will stay constant in the affected bone or bones throughout the patient’s life. This condition can cause bone pain, arthritis, deformities and fractures. The osteoclast is the primary cell affected by PDB, this will show morphological and physiological abnormalities4. Osteoblasts are increased in

A obstacle with battling Osteomyelitis is physical activity. She had a huge scar on my chest from surgery, and her body took in a lot much radiation that year so she always was a step back when it came to physical activity. The doctors told her mom to stay away from firefighter poles on the playground, climbing equipment, and monkey bars because it would’ve stretched the scar she had. That’s why she still never go near these thing to this day. Also she got out of Physical Education for a year. So she never did those things in first grade.