TY - JOUR
T1 - Pediatric infectious sacroiliitis
T2 - Characterization and differentiation from noninfectious etiologies
AU - Vardi, Yoav
AU - Levy, Itzhak
AU - Ashkenazi-Hoffnung, Liat
AU - Sherman, Gilad
AU - Berger, Itay
AU - Rom, Eran
AU - Chodick, Gabriel
AU - Landau, Daniel
AU - Scheuerman, Oded
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2019 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - Background: Pediatric sacroiliitis (SI) is an uncommon entity of infectious or inflammatory etiology. Recent data regarding pediatric SI are scarce. The study objective was to describe and compare the clinical features of pediatric infectious and noninfectious SI. Methods: We reviewed files of children ≤18 years of age, admitted with SI in 2004–2017. Patients were grouped by etiology, infectious versus noninfectious. Clinical and laboratory indices, imaging, treatment protocols and outcome were compared. Results: Study population included 40 patients with infectious SI (range: 3–192 months, median age: 15 months, 45% female) and 13 patients with noninfectious SI (range: 30–216 months, median age: 168 months, 62% females). Duration of symptoms before admission averaged 5.9 ± 7.5 days in the infectious group and 54.2 ± 96 days in the noninfectious group (P = 0.003). Symptoms observed solely in the infectious group included refusal to stand (n = 27, 77%); walk or crawl (n = 24, 65%); irritability (n = 20, 50%) and recent constipation event (n = 8, 20%). No significant differences in laboratory results were found. Infectious SI patients had uneventful medical history, rapid response to antibiotics and a higher rate of complete resolution of symptoms without recurrences. Conclusions: An acute unilateral presentation in young patients ≤2 years of age, without chronic medical conditions, suggests an infectious etiology of SI anticipated to completely resolve with antibiotic treatment, not necessitating further workup for noninfectious etiologies.
AB - Background: Pediatric sacroiliitis (SI) is an uncommon entity of infectious or inflammatory etiology. Recent data regarding pediatric SI are scarce. The study objective was to describe and compare the clinical features of pediatric infectious and noninfectious SI. Methods: We reviewed files of children ≤18 years of age, admitted with SI in 2004–2017. Patients were grouped by etiology, infectious versus noninfectious. Clinical and laboratory indices, imaging, treatment protocols and outcome were compared. Results: Study population included 40 patients with infectious SI (range: 3–192 months, median age: 15 months, 45% female) and 13 patients with noninfectious SI (range: 30–216 months, median age: 168 months, 62% females). Duration of symptoms before admission averaged 5.9 ± 7.5 days in the infectious group and 54.2 ± 96 days in the noninfectious group (P = 0.003). Symptoms observed solely in the infectious group included refusal to stand (n = 27, 77%); walk or crawl (n = 24, 65%); irritability (n = 20, 50%) and recent constipation event (n = 8, 20%). No significant differences in laboratory results were found. Infectious SI patients had uneventful medical history, rapid response to antibiotics and a higher rate of complete resolution of symptoms without recurrences. Conclusions: An acute unilateral presentation in young patients ≤2 years of age, without chronic medical conditions, suggests an infectious etiology of SI anticipated to completely resolve with antibiotic treatment, not necessitating further workup for noninfectious etiologies.
KW - Arthritis
KW - Children
KW - Pyogenic
KW - Sacral joint
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U2 - 10.1097/INF.0000000000002340
DO - 10.1097/INF.0000000000002340
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C2 - 30985512
AN - SCOPUS:85068198509
SN - 0891-3668
VL - 38
SP - E134-E137
JO - Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
JF - Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
IS - 7
ER -