Retrospective analysis of the diagnosis and treatment of patients with spondylodiscitis without neurological symptoms in the Clinic for Trauma Surgery and Orthopedics at the Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin

The majority of the patients were male (55%) with a mean age of 74 years. Non-operative therapy was found to be associated with short-term treatment success in 54 (82%) of the patients. In 12 patients, who underwent surgical therapy, MRI diagnostics and clinical findings were equally important for the decision to perform a surgery. Patients treated operatively stayed for an average of 33.6 (+- 12.9) days in the hospital and thus significantly longer than non-operatively treated patients with 22.2 (+- 8.0) days in average. The in-house standard of care did not essentially deviate from the guideline’s recommendations.