NECROTIZING FASCIITIS - EARLY AWARENESS AND PRINCIPLES OF TREATMENT

  • 1 January 1985
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 21  (2) , 127-132
Abstract
Necrotizing fasciitis is a serious life-threatening disease. A series of 11 patients with this disease was described, with emphasis on clinical diagnosis, initiating factors, associated diseases, etiologic pathogens and treatment. Escherichia coli was the most prominent single pathogen, hyperbaric O2 did not show any added beneficial effect and diabetes mellitus did not affect morbidity and mortality. There was no doubt that aggressive and radical surgical excision and repeated debridement, combined with i.v. antibiotics and hyperalimentation, were essential to achieve a favorable outcome in this fulminant disease.

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