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Survival of an 80-Year-Old Male With a Successful Split-Thickness Skin Graft for End-Stage Necrotizing Fasciitis: A Case Report

Herein, we report a case of an 80-year-old male who was diagnosed with a fatal condition known as necrotizing fasciitis. This devastating soft tissue infection can cause profound damage to multiple tissue planes. Despite its etiology being multifactorial, impaired immunity with increasing age weighs...

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Autores principales: Iqbal, Mashood, Arshad, Ahsan, Syed, Jahanghir, Saleem, Amna, Khan, Abdus Salam, Khan, Shayan Iqbal, Khawaja, Uzzam Ahmed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9273206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35836465
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25829
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author Iqbal, Mashood
Arshad, Ahsan
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Khan, Abdus Salam
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Khawaja, Uzzam Ahmed
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Arshad, Ahsan
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description Herein, we report a case of an 80-year-old male who was diagnosed with a fatal condition known as necrotizing fasciitis. This devastating soft tissue infection can cause profound damage to multiple tissue planes. Despite its etiology being multifactorial, impaired immunity with increasing age weighs in as the most significant. We intend to shed light on its detrimental clinical features and how we managed to treat the patient both conservatively and surgically. Through our case findings and management plan, we hope this case to be of clinical value and knowledge to clinicians to better diagnose and treat the deleterious condition.
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spelling pubmed-92732062022-07-13 Survival of an 80-Year-Old Male With a Successful Split-Thickness Skin Graft for End-Stage Necrotizing Fasciitis: A Case Report Iqbal, Mashood Arshad, Ahsan Syed, Jahanghir Saleem, Amna Khan, Abdus Salam Khan, Shayan Iqbal Khawaja, Uzzam Ahmed Cureus Dermatology Herein, we report a case of an 80-year-old male who was diagnosed with a fatal condition known as necrotizing fasciitis. This devastating soft tissue infection can cause profound damage to multiple tissue planes. Despite its etiology being multifactorial, impaired immunity with increasing age weighs in as the most significant. We intend to shed light on its detrimental clinical features and how we managed to treat the patient both conservatively and surgically. Through our case findings and management plan, we hope this case to be of clinical value and knowledge to clinicians to better diagnose and treat the deleterious condition. Cureus 2022-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9273206/ /pubmed/35836465 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25829 Text en Copyright © 2022, Iqbal et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Iqbal, Mashood
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Survival of an 80-Year-Old Male With a Successful Split-Thickness Skin Graft for End-Stage Necrotizing Fasciitis: A Case Report
title Survival of an 80-Year-Old Male With a Successful Split-Thickness Skin Graft for End-Stage Necrotizing Fasciitis: A Case Report
title_full Survival of an 80-Year-Old Male With a Successful Split-Thickness Skin Graft for End-Stage Necrotizing Fasciitis: A Case Report
title_fullStr Survival of an 80-Year-Old Male With a Successful Split-Thickness Skin Graft for End-Stage Necrotizing Fasciitis: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Survival of an 80-Year-Old Male With a Successful Split-Thickness Skin Graft for End-Stage Necrotizing Fasciitis: A Case Report
title_short Survival of an 80-Year-Old Male With a Successful Split-Thickness Skin Graft for End-Stage Necrotizing Fasciitis: A Case Report
title_sort survival of an 80-year-old male with a successful split-thickness skin graft for end-stage necrotizing fasciitis: a case report
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9273206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35836465
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25829
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