Limb salvage after gas gangrene: a case report and review of the literature

Gas gangrene is a necrotic infection of soft tissue associated with high mortality, often necessitating amputation in order to control the infection. Herein we present a case of gas gangrene of the arm in an intravenous drug user with a history of intramuscular injections with normal saline in the s...

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Autores principales: Aggelidakis, John, Lasithiotakis, Konstantinos, Topalidou, Anastasia, Koutroumpas, John, Kouvidis, Georgios, Katonis, Paulos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3182882/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21846405
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-6-28
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author Aggelidakis, John
Lasithiotakis, Konstantinos
Topalidou, Anastasia
Koutroumpas, John
Kouvidis, Georgios
Katonis, Paulos
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description Gas gangrene is a necrotic infection of soft tissue associated with high mortality, often necessitating amputation in order to control the infection. Herein we present a case of gas gangrene of the arm in an intravenous drug user with a history of intramuscular injections with normal saline in the shoulder used to provoke pain for recovery after drug induced coma. The patient was early treated with surgery and antibiotics rendering possible the preservation of the limb and some of its function. Additionally, a review of the literature regarding case reports of limb salvage after gas gangrene is presented.
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spelling pubmed-31828822011-09-30 Limb salvage after gas gangrene: a case report and review of the literature Aggelidakis, John Lasithiotakis, Konstantinos Topalidou, Anastasia Koutroumpas, John Kouvidis, Georgios Katonis, Paulos World J Emerg Surg Review Gas gangrene is a necrotic infection of soft tissue associated with high mortality, often necessitating amputation in order to control the infection. Herein we present a case of gas gangrene of the arm in an intravenous drug user with a history of intramuscular injections with normal saline in the shoulder used to provoke pain for recovery after drug induced coma. The patient was early treated with surgery and antibiotics rendering possible the preservation of the limb and some of its function. Additionally, a review of the literature regarding case reports of limb salvage after gas gangrene is presented. BioMed Central 2011-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC3182882/ /pubmed/21846405 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-6-28 Text en Copyright ©2011 Aggelidakis et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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