Pott's disease, also known as tuberculosis of the spine, causes softening and collapse of the vertebrae which can result in a hunched back deformity. It is caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria. Signs and symptoms include back pain, fever, night sweats, weight loss, and the development of a spinal mass or curvature. Treatment involves antibiotics, immobilizing the spine, and sometimes surgery to drain abscesses or stabilize the spine. Controlling the spread of tuberculosis through preventative medication or screening tests can help prevent Pott's disease.
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Pott's disease, also known as tuberculosis of the spine, causes softening and collapse of the vertebrae which can result in a hunched back deformity. It is caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria. Signs and symptoms include back pain, fever, night sweats, weight loss, and the development of a spinal mass or curvature. Treatment involves antibiotics, immobilizing the spine, and sometimes surgery to drain abscesses or stabilize the spine. Controlling the spread of tuberculosis through preventative medication or screening tests can help prevent Pott's disease.
Pott's disease, also known as tuberculosis of the spine, causes softening and collapse of the vertebrae which can result in a hunched back deformity. It is caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria. Signs and symptoms include back pain, fever, night sweats, weight loss, and the development of a spinal mass or curvature. Treatment involves antibiotics, immobilizing the spine, and sometimes surgery to drain abscesses or stabilize the spine. Controlling the spread of tuberculosis through preventative medication or screening tests can help prevent Pott's disease.
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Pott's disease, also known as tuberculosis of the spine, causes softening and collapse of the vertebrae which can result in a hunched back deformity. It is caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria. Signs and symptoms include back pain, fever, night sweats, weight loss, and the development of a spinal mass or curvature. Treatment involves antibiotics, immobilizing the spine, and sometimes surgery to drain abscesses or stabilize the spine. Controlling the spread of tuberculosis through preventative medication or screening tests can help prevent Pott's disease.
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Pott's disease also known as Pengel's drugs have formed or to stabilize the spine.
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Since Pott's disease is caused by a extrapulmonary tuberculosis that affects • immobilization of the spine bacterial infection, prevention is possible the spine, a kind of tuberculous arthritis region by rod (Hull) through proper control. The best method of the intervertebral joints. It is named • Surgery may be necessary, for preventing the disease is reduce or after Percivall Pott (1714-1788), a especially to drain spinal eliminate the spread of tuberculosis. In London surgeon who trained at Barts. abscesses or to stabilize the addition, testing for tuberculosis is an Scientifically, it is called tuberculous spine important preventative measure, as those spondylitis and it is most commonly • Richards intramedullary hip who are positive for purified protein localized in the thoracic portion of the screw - facilitating for bone derivative (PPD) can take medication to spine healing prevent tuberculosis from forming. A • Kuntcher Nail - intramedullary tuberculin skin test is the most common Signs and symptoms rod method used to screen for tuberculosis, • Austin Moore - intrameduallary • back pain though blood tests, bone scans, bone rod (for Hemiarthroplasty) • fever biopsies, and radiographs may also be • night sweating Pott's disease, which is also known as used to confirm the disease. • anorexia Pott’s caries, David's disease, and Pott's • weight loss curvature, is a medical condition of the • Spinal mass, sometimes spine. Individuals suffering from Pott's Pathophysiology associated with numbness, disease typically experience back pain, Pott disease is usually secondary to an tingling, or muscle weakness of night sweats, fever, weight loss, and extraspinal source of infection. The basic the legs anorexia. They may also develop a spinal lesion involved in Pott disease is a mass, which results in tingling, combination of osteomyelitis and numbness, or a general feeling of arthritis that usually involves more than Diagnosis weakness in the leg muscles. Often, the one vertebra. The anterior aspect of the • blood tests - elevated pain associated with Pott's disease causes vertebral body adjacent to the erythrocyte sedimentation rate the sufferer to walk in an upright and subchondral plate is area usually • tuberculin skin test stiff position. affected. Tuberculosis may spread from • radiographs of the spine Pott’s disease is caused when the that area to adjacent intervertebral disks. • bone scan vertebrae become soft and collapse as theIn adults, disk disease is secondary to the • CT of the spine result of caries or osteitis. Typically, this spread of infection from the vertebral • bone biopsy is caused by mycobacterium body. In children, because the disk is • MRI 3 tuberculosis. As a result, a person with vascularized, it can be a primary site. Pott's disease often develops kyphosis, Progressive bone destruction leads to Late complications which results in a hunchback. This is vertebral collapse and kyphosis. The often referred to as Pott’s curvature. In spinal canal can be narrowed by • Vertebral collapse resulting in some cases, a person with Pott's disease abscesses, granulation tissue, or direct kyphosis may also develop paralysis, referred to as dural invasion, leading to spinal cord • Spinal cord compression Pott’s paraplegia, when the spinal nerves compression and neurologic deficits. The • sinus formation become affected by the curvature. kyphotic deformity is caused by collapse • paraplegia (so called Pott's A person with Pott's disease may in the anterior spine. Lesions in the paraplegia) experience additional complications as a thoracic spine are more likely to lead to result of the curvature. For example, an kyphosis than those in the lumbar spine. Prevention infection can more easily spread from theA cold abscess can occur if the infection paravertebral tissue, which can cause extends to adjacent ligaments and soft Controlling the spread of tuberculosis tissues. Abscesses in the lumbar region abscesses to occur. Regardless of the infection can prevent tuberculous may descend down the sheath of the complications that may occur, Pott's spondylitis and arthritis. Patients who disease is typically slow spreading and psoas to the femoral trigone region and have a positive PPD test (but not active eventually erode into the skin. can last for several months or years. tuberculosis) may decrease their risk by properly taking medicines to prevent A person who has been diagnosed with tuberculosis. To effectively treat Pott's disease may be treated through a Pott's disease: An old term for tuberculosis, it is crucial that patients variety of options. He or she may utilize tuberculosis of the spine that caused take their medications exactly as analgesics or antituberculous drugs to get softening and collapse of the vertebrae, prescribed. the infection under control. It may also often resulting in kyphosis, a be necessary to immobilize the area of "hunchback" deformity, which was the spine affected by the disease, or the called "Pott's curvature." Therapy person may need to undergo surgery in order to drain any abscesses that may Named for the English surgeon Sir John • non-operative - antituberculous Percivall Pott (1714-1788) who described it