Long-Term Outcome of Pyogenic Vertebral Osteomyelitis: A Cohort Study of 260 Patients

Abstract

Increasing duration of symptoms and infection with S. aureus were associated with treatment failure in patients with PVO. Most treatment failures occurred early after initiation of treatment. Pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis is associated with a high 2-year failure rate. Persistent neurological deficits and back pain are common after therapy.