Extensive necrotizing fasciitis from Fournier's gangrene

Fournier's gangrene is rapidly progressive necrotizing fasciitis that mainly affects the male perineum. Despite the advancement in surgical intervention, Fournier's gangrene carries high rates of mortality. Here, we present a 51-year-old male with hypertension and history of alcohol abuse...

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Autores principales: Joury, Abdulaziz, Mahendra, Arjun, Alshehri, Mona, Downing, Asia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Inflammation and Infection
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6582197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31236328
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2019.100943
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description Fournier's gangrene is rapidly progressive necrotizing fasciitis that mainly affects the male perineum. Despite the advancement in surgical intervention, Fournier's gangrene carries high rates of mortality. Here, we present a 51-year-old male with hypertension and history of alcohol abuse presented to the emergency department with scrotal pain and swelling for a one-week period without preceding trauma to perineal area. He underwent emergent surgical debridement for and extensive necrotizing fasciitis. Early initiation of antibiotics, surgical intervention and good wound care postoperatively were cornerstone in his recovery.
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spelling pubmed-65821972019-06-24 Extensive necrotizing fasciitis from Fournier's gangrene Joury, Abdulaziz Mahendra, Arjun Alshehri, Mona Downing, Asia Urol Case Rep Inflammation and Infection Fournier's gangrene is rapidly progressive necrotizing fasciitis that mainly affects the male perineum. Despite the advancement in surgical intervention, Fournier's gangrene carries high rates of mortality. Here, we present a 51-year-old male with hypertension and history of alcohol abuse presented to the emergency department with scrotal pain and swelling for a one-week period without preceding trauma to perineal area. He underwent emergent surgical debridement for and extensive necrotizing fasciitis. Early initiation of antibiotics, surgical intervention and good wound care postoperatively were cornerstone in his recovery. Elsevier 2019-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6582197/ /pubmed/31236328 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2019.100943 Text en © 2019 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_full Extensive necrotizing fasciitis from Fournier's gangrene
title_fullStr Extensive necrotizing fasciitis from Fournier's gangrene
title_full_unstemmed Extensive necrotizing fasciitis from Fournier's gangrene
title_short Extensive necrotizing fasciitis from Fournier's gangrene
title_sort extensive necrotizing fasciitis from fournier's gangrene
topic Inflammation and Infection
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