Successful Treatment of Necrotizing Fasciitis in an Upper Extremity Caused by Clostridium perfringens after Bone Marrow Transplantation

We report a 47-year-old man with acute leukemia who survived a severe case of necrotizing fasciitis caused by Clostridium perfringens involving his right upper extremity. On day 5 after stem cell transplantation, progressive local tissue necrosis led to septicemia and disseminated intravascular coag...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Internal Medicine 2011, Vol.50(19), pp.2213-2217
Hauptverfasser:	Ito, Mitsugu, Takahashi, Naoto, Saitoh, Hirobumi, Shida, Seiji, Nagao, Takayo, Kume, Masaaki, Kameoka, Yoshihiro, Tagawa, Hiroyuki, Fujishima, Naohito, Hirokawa, Makoto, Tazawa, Hiroshi, Minato, Takashi, Yamada, Shin, Sawada, Kenichi
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use Arm Bone Marrow Transplantation - adverse effects Clostridium perfringens Debridement disseminated intravascular coagulation Fasciitis, Necrotizing - etiology Fasciitis, Necrotizing - therapy Gas Gangrene - etiology Gas Gangrene - therapy Humans Immunoglobulins, Intravenous - therapeutic use Male Middle Aged necrotizing fasciitis Recombinant Proteins - therapeutic use recombinant thrombomodulin Thrombomodulin - therapeutic use
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