Abstract: We report a rare case of spontaneously developing generalised gas gangrene with massive rhabdomyolysis after a cholecystectomy and drainage of a hepatic abscess. On preoperative physical examination the patient appeared severely ill and was icteric and...
Abstract: The rapidly aging population and patients with multiple concomitant pathologies present an increasing population of patients with nonhealing and problem wounds causing an unwelcome challenge for all health care providers. Many of these patients are not...
Abstract: Anaerobic soft tissue infections are still life threatening infections. Although their frequency is actually moderate; they remain severe because physicians are often insufficiently aware of them. Although the classification between myonecrosis and...
Abstract: The authors report two cases of necrotizing fascilitis (NF) occurring after surgical interventions on the breast (reduction mammoplasty in one patient and mastectomy for breast cancer in the other). In both cases the etiologic agent were group A pyogenic...
Abstract: Necrotizing fasciitis is a soft tissue infection, usually polymicrobial, characterized by necrosis of fascia and subcutaneous tissue. Although it more commonly involves the groin, abdomen, and extremities, it may also occur in the head and neck. We report a...
Abstract: The authors evaluate in a retrospective fashion the factors influencing outcome in a large group of patients presenting with necrotizing soft tissue infections, and, based on this analysis, propose a plan for optimal care of such patients. In many smaller...
Abstract: Hyperbaric Oxygen (HBO) therapy is advocated for the treatment of severe trauma of the limbs in association with surgery because of its effects on peripheral oxygen transport, muscular ischemic necrosis, compartment syndrome, and infection prevention....
Abstract: Pathophysiologic mechanisms involved in the application of HBO therapy are poorly understood that may limit its clinical use. However, useful indications are well standardized in the setting of critical care medicine, CO poisoning, decompression sickness,...
Abstract: Strauss, Chung, Hart, Weinstein, , , , , (1996). The role of hyperbaric oxygenation therapy for necrotizing fasciitis. The Western journal of medicine, 1996 Apr;164(4):363-4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8732749
