Unraveling the largest outbreak of fungal infections associated with contaminated steroid injections
Wednesday, June 26, 2013 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
Investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describe pathologic findings from 40 case reports of fungal infection in patients who had been given contaminated epidural, paraspinal, or intra-articular (into joints) steroid injections and correlate these findings with clinical and laboratory data. The report alerts clinicians and the general public to the catastrophic dangers of contaminated epidural injections.