Abstract: NF involves rapidly spreading inflammation with necrosis of superficial fascia, fat, and possibly muscle and epidermis. Severe systemic toxicity can be associated with NF and mortality rates can reach 74% with this so called flesh eating disease. Treatment...
Abstract: Garcia-Covarrubias, Bartlett, Barratt, Wassermann, , , , , (2001). Rhino-orbitocerebral mucormycosis attributable to Apophysomyces elegans in an immunocompetent individual: case report and review of the literature. The Journal of trauma, 2001...
Abstract: Clostridial gas gangrene and perineal necrotizing fasciitis or Fournier's gangrene are rare but serious infections with an acute onset, rapid progression, systemic toxemia and a high mortality rate. The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of...
Abstract: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO), that is the administration of 100% oxygen delivered under pressure, has a beneficial effect in several surgical conditions. Its use has been assessed and audited and its pharmacological effects demonstrated. It is appropriate...
Abstract: A recent increase in reports of necrotizing fasciitis resulting from group B streptococcus has alerted physicians to a possible concomitant increase of toxic shock-like syndrome. We report the second case of group B streptococcus causing necrotizing...
Abstract: The aim of hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) is to increase transported oxygen in the blood over the rise of the physiologically solved part. In oral and maxillofacial surgery, treatment-resistant osteomyelitis and osteoradionecrosis are indications for HBO...
Abstract: Subcutaneous fat necrosis associated with pancreatic disease is a rare event. The clinical cutaneous findings are non-specific erythematous nodules with central softening located predominantly on the lower extremities. The histopathologic features of these...
Abstract: For more than thirty years hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) has been an important and ultimate therapeutic tool in special indications. Hyperbaric oxygen improves tissue oxygenation, stimulates important mechanisms in wound healing and exerts beneficial...
Abstract: To investigate the effect of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) treatment on tissue oxygen and carbon dioxide tensions in patients with necrotising fasciitis and healthy volunteers. Clinical study in patients and healthy controls. University hospital, Finland. 6...
Abstract: The dramatic course of necrotizing soft tissue infection represents a medical emergency, since it is limb- and life-threatening. Most necrotizing soft tissue infections are caused by mixed aerobic and anaerobic Gram-negative and Gram-positive organisms. Most...
