Orthopedic & Muscular System: Current Research
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Sfax, Tunisia

Biography

Dr. Salem Bouomrani is an Associate Professor of internal Medicine at Sfax University School of Medicine in TUNISIA and the head of the Department of Internal Medicine of the Military Hospital of Gabes, in Tunisia. After his internal Medicine Residency at the University of Monastir in Tunisia, he completed a traineeship at Saint-Antoine Hospital in Paris France. He has his Ph.D. in internalMedicine in 2015 and was also diplomated in many interesting fields: Systemic and Autoimmune Diseases from Saint-Antoine Faculty of Medicien

Publications

• Case Report   
  Henoch-Schönlein Purpura Complicating Acute Osteomyelitis to Staphylococcus aureus
  Author(s): Salem Bouomrani* and Moez Ben Ayed
  
  Introduction: Henoch-Schönlein Purpura (HSP) is the most common systemic vasculitis in children. The etiology of HSP is still unknown; although various factors have been implicated in the precipitation of the disease such as viruses, group A streptococci, drugs, vaccines, and cancers. Staphylococcus aureus (SA) infections are exceptionally found at the origin of this angiitis. We report an original case of HSP complicating acute osteomyelitis of the left femur to SA. Case report: A 15-year-old child was hospitalized for vascular purpura of the lower and upper limbs, associated with diffuse abdominal pain and inflammatory polyarthritis, occurring four weeks after treatment of acute osteomyelitis to SA of the left femoral neck, complicated by coxofemoral arthritis and abscess of the left thigh. Biological, radiological, and histo.. View More»
  

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