Nitroglycerin patch use in digital ischemia secondary to sepsis: a case report

Sepsis results in intense disturbances in homoeostasis and is responsible for considerable morbidity and mortality in early infancy. Owing to insufficiency on part of infant to develop adequate inflammatory response to localize the infection, they usually progress to disseminated systemic infection,...

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Autores principales: Jadhav, Devendrasing Vijaysing, Mendonca, Derek, Kotinatot, Suresh, Shankar, Shiva, Mazmi, Munira Al
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8051252/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33912284
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.114.27279
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author Jadhav, Devendrasing Vijaysing
Mendonca, Derek
Kotinatot, Suresh
Shankar, Shiva
Mazmi, Munira Al
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Kotinatot, Suresh
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description Sepsis results in intense disturbances in homoeostasis and is responsible for considerable morbidity and mortality in early infancy. Owing to insufficiency on part of infant to develop adequate inflammatory response to localize the infection, they usually progress to disseminated systemic infection, pneumonia and/or meningitis. We present the case of a 26 weeks preterm boy with acute digital ischemia in right index finger progressing to impending gangrene as a manifestation of septicemia. Use of topical nitroglycerin patch with meticulous monitoring successfully alleviated the impending peripheral gangrene without any adverse effects.
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spelling pubmed-80512522021-04-27 Nitroglycerin patch use in digital ischemia secondary to sepsis: a case report Jadhav, Devendrasing Vijaysing Mendonca, Derek Kotinatot, Suresh Shankar, Shiva Mazmi, Munira Al Pan Afr Med J Case Report Sepsis results in intense disturbances in homoeostasis and is responsible for considerable morbidity and mortality in early infancy. Owing to insufficiency on part of infant to develop adequate inflammatory response to localize the infection, they usually progress to disseminated systemic infection, pneumonia and/or meningitis. We present the case of a 26 weeks preterm boy with acute digital ischemia in right index finger progressing to impending gangrene as a manifestation of septicemia. Use of topical nitroglycerin patch with meticulous monitoring successfully alleviated the impending peripheral gangrene without any adverse effects. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8051252/ /pubmed/33912284 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.114.27279 Text en Copyright: Devendrasing Vijaysing Jadhav et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Jadhav, Devendrasing Vijaysing
Mendonca, Derek
Kotinatot, Suresh
Shankar, Shiva
Mazmi, Munira Al
Nitroglycerin patch use in digital ischemia secondary to sepsis: a case report
title Nitroglycerin patch use in digital ischemia secondary to sepsis: a case report
title_full Nitroglycerin patch use in digital ischemia secondary to sepsis: a case report
title_fullStr Nitroglycerin patch use in digital ischemia secondary to sepsis: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Nitroglycerin patch use in digital ischemia secondary to sepsis: a case report
title_short Nitroglycerin patch use in digital ischemia secondary to sepsis: a case report
title_sort nitroglycerin patch use in digital ischemia secondary to sepsis: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8051252/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33912284
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.114.27279
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