Importancia de la valoración de enfermería en mal de pott vs espondilodiscitis: a propósito de un caso.

Abstract

Introduction: Pott's Disease, an expression of extrapulmonary tuberculosis that affects the skeletal system and whose incidence corresponds to 50% of these cases, is an infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis that typically causes damage to vertebral bodies. In a report carried out by the WHO, our country is among the top 10 in the region with the highest number of TB cases and, according to the MSP, the province of El Oro ranks second at the national level. While infectious spondylodiscitis is an entity that affects the vertebral bodies and intervertebral disc, its causal agent in most cases is Staphylococcus Aureus (80%) and affects people from the fifth decade of life, but, lately, it has has reported a peak of the disease in those under 20 years of age.