Acute Osteomyelitis
Research from Sultan Qaboos University, Medical Department has provided new information about acute osteomyelitis
Published in Blood Weekly, March 20th, 2008
In this recently published study, investigators in Muscat, Oman conducted a study "To prove the hypothesis that acute bone infarcts in sickle cell disease are caused by sequestration of red blood cells (RBCs) in bone marrow, and to evaluate the unenhanced T1 fat-saturated (fs) sequence in the differentiation of acute bone infarction from acute osteomyelitis in patients with sickle-cell disease. Two studies were undertaken: an experimental study using in-vitro packed red blood cells and normal volunteers, and a retrospective clinical study of 86 magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies."
"For the experimental study containers of packed RBCs were placed between the knees...
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Source: Blood Weekly (2008-03-20)
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