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Timeline of the patient's clinical course after cardiac surgery.
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Eighteen months after the surgery (M18, see Figure 1), the patient presented fewer with a lower back pain that was intensified for 1 month.
Vertebral magnetic resonance imaging of the vertebral lesions. Vertebral magnetic resonance imaging revealed lesions of the vertebral bodies at T8-T9-L4-L5-S1 and invertebral disks between T8-T9 (A) and L4-L5-S1 (B), with an epidural abscess of 5 cm at the L3 and L4 levels, consistent with a pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis.
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T8-T9 and L4-L5-S1, with an epidural abscess of 5 cm at the L3 and L4 levels, consistent with a pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis (Figure 2).
Mycobacterium chimaera infections associated with open heart surgery characteristics.
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Contamination and infections characteristics are presented in Figure 3.