Abstract: Rubber band ligation of hemorrhoids has had a low incidence of complications until recently, when five deaths resulted from bacterial septicemia or toxemia. The case presented describes a severe soft-tissue infection following banding successfully treated...
Abstract: Necrotizing fasciitis was diagnosed in 16 patients during the years 1980 to 1984. All patients were managed by a uniform protocol consisting of radical excisional surgery, intravenous antibiotics, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. An overall mortality rate of...
Abstract: A case is presented of a 31-year-old white woman with necrotizing fasciitis. She had had a previous diagnosis of porphyria cutanea tarda that was manifested in part by bullous lesions on her forearms and hands. A soft tissue infection developed in her left...
Abstract: Inhalation of pressurized 100% oxygen is a helpful adjunctive treatment for certain patients, because the increased oxygen carried by the blood to the tissue enhances new growth of microcirculation and, thus, healing. Patients with tissue breakdown after...
Abstract: Soft-tissue infections with tissue necrosis, due to mixed aerobic and anaerobic organisms, are an accepted indication for hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy. A unique type of such infection is Fournier's gangrene. This condition represents a serious risk to...
Abstract: Necrotizing fasciitis is a serious life-threatening disease. A series of 11 patients with this disease is described, with emphasis on clinical diagnosis, initiating factors, associated diseases, etiologic pathogens and treatment. The following conclusions...
Abstract: Necrotizing fascitis of the head and neck is a rare condition with only 7 cases recorded in the literature. Two cases are presented in which there was massive necrosis of the soft tissues of the neck with extension into the mediastinum. The offending...
Abstract: The author's experience of fourteen patients with necrotizing fasciitis is reviewed. The pathognomonic feature of this condition is an extensive necrosis of subcutaneous tissue caused by a vicious cycle of infection, local ischaemia and reduced host defence...
