Global Consensus on the Management of Spinal Infections: Recommendations From International Consensus Meeting 2025
Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran, Javad Parvizi · 2026
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Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran and Javad Parvizi wrote this 2026 report on the first global consensus meeting for spinal infections, held in Istanbul in May 2025. Spinal infections vary wildly in germ, course, and custom of treatment, and trials are scarce, so practice has run on habit. The meeting gathered 132 surgeons from thirty-two countries to build shared recommendations.
The process was deliberately heavy: over three hundred candidate questions were ranked down to seventy-three high-impact ones. Tubercular and ordinary bacterial spinal infections were handled through separate pathways, since their biology and treatment lengths differ fundamentally. Evidence was graded centrally, and more than fifty-five delegates voted formally on each recommendation. The authors present the document as a milestone for a neglected field: not the last word, but the first globally validated one. It aims to narrow the gap between what rich and poor health systems do for the same infected spine.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran, Javad Parvizi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 4 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |