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A member asked:
A long history of osteomyelitis in my foot i now have a caused by a screw that i stepped on by accident and is not healing why?
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Osteomyelitis : Chronic osteomyelitis requires proper surgical debridement by vascular surgeon or podiatrist and requires prolonged courses of antibiotics directed specifically against pathogens isolated from bone cultures.
Answered 9/17/2016
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When you say not: healing the problem is we don't know what treatment you tried so far…antibiotics should be guided by bone culture. Antibiotic impregnanted beads may be helpful, infected bone may have to be removed, sometimes, hyperbaric oxygen can be helpful. Would need to know more to me of more help...
Answered 9/19/2016
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