Mycobacterium heckeshornense lumbar spondylodiskitis in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis receiving etanercept treatment

J Rheumatol. 2009 Sep;36(9):2130-1. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.090056.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Antirheumatic Agents / therapeutic use
  • Arthritis, Rheumatoid / drug therapy*
  • Discitis / diagnosis*
  • Discitis / microbiology*
  • Etanercept
  • Humans
  • Immunoglobulin G / therapeutic use*
  • Lumbar Vertebrae / diagnostic imaging
  • Lumbar Vertebrae / microbiology*
  • Lumbar Vertebrae / pathology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mycobacterium / pathogenicity*
  • Opportunistic Infections / diagnosis*
  • Opportunistic Infections / microbiology
  • Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor / therapeutic use*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / antagonists & inhibitors

Substances

  • Antirheumatic Agents
  • Immunoglobulin G
  • Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor
  • Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
  • Etanercept