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drz
10-27-2012, 04:07 PM
In a letter published online (http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1384432) October 17 in Annals of Internal Medicine, Jennifer L. Lyons, MD, and colleagues provide details about the clinical care, deterioration, and ultimately death a woman with fulminant Exserohilum species meningitis due to an epidural cervical injection with contaminated, preservative-free methylprednisolone acetate.

Is this the drug many of us got for our treatment of Wegs when we were initially diagnosed and treated. If so, it gives new meaning to the phrase, "if you survive the treatment, things will get better".