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An unusual presentation of infrarenal aortoiliac occlusion with metastatic gas gangrene
Journal of Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences, 2019 Gas gangrene is a term reserved for fulminant soft tissue infections caused by Clostridium species. The posttraumatic form of gas gangrene is caused by Clostridium perfringens.
J Abdul Gafoor +3 more
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Fournier’s gangrene mimicking an acute epididymitis
SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2021 Fournier’s gangrene is a urologic emergency secondary to a necrotizing soft tissue infection. Fournier’s gangrene is characterized by severe pain and features of Fournier’s gangrene may include edema, blisters and bullae, crepitus, subcutaneous gas, and ...
Kalee Larsen +4 more
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X-Ray Treatment of Gas Gangrene
, 2012 While the use of x-rays to treat patients with gas gangrene ended in the early 1940’s with the advent of antibiotics, x-ray had been widely accepted as a useful and highly effective treatment for this condition.
Calabrese, Edward J., Dhawan, Gaurav
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Multiorgan fatal gas gangrene in the setting of clostridium septicum bacteremia: a case report
, 2020 Gas gangrene can be traumatic or spontaneous, and most cases of spontaneous gas gangrene are caused by clostridium septicum. Clostridium septicum gas gangrene is a life-threatening disease with a high mortality of 80% in the literature, which demands a ...
O. Kousa +6 more
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Statistical study of aca-talasemia, a review of thirty-eight cases appearing in the literatures [PDF]
, 1959 1. With a view to grasp more simply and clearly the characteristics of this disease and in order to find a clue for prompt discovery of cases when encountered in future, the authors undertook a statistical study of the cases already reported by various ...
Doi, Katsusaburo +2 more
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Infectious Diseases, 2019 Introduction: Clostridium perfringens and other gas gangrene-forming clostridia are commensals of the human gut and vaginal microbiota, but can cause serious or even fatal infections.
K. P. Sárvári, Dzsenifer Schoblocher
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International Journal of Antimicrobial AgentsHypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) poses a serious public health threat. Gas gangrene caused by hvKp was rarely reported, potentially resulting in a poor prognosis.
Wenhao Wu +7 more
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Treatment of Gas Gangrene [PDF]
BMJ, 1944 The case-fatality rate of gas gangren? in the present war has been approximately 50%. Even with the low incidence found in desert warfare the disease accounts for a considerable pro portion of the deaths from wounds (Pulvertaft, 1943 ; Wiles, 1944), and becomes a more serious problem when the incidence rises, as it is already known to have risen, with ...
J D, Maclennan, M G, Macfarlane
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Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2008 Introduction Pneumatosis coli is a rare disease with heterogeneous symptoms which can be detected in the course of various acute and chronic intestinal diseases in children, such as necrotizing enterocolitis, intestinal obstruction and intestinal ...
Kircher Stefan +3 more
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