complications
Last reviewed 05/2023
Fatalities are rare in the age of antibiotics, however, morbidity is common especially if treatment is delayed or the organism is exceptionally virulent.
Complications include:
- metastatic infection: spread may be to bones, joints, serous cavities, brain or lung
- suppurative arthritis
- altered bone growth:
- damage to the growth plate may cause shortening or deformity
- physeal hyperaemia may rarely result in an abnormally long bone
- chronic osteomyelitis