Iatrogenic non-clostridial gas gangrene - a case report
| Autor: | Girish Chandra Yp, Jayanth Sh, Ramkumar J |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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0301 basic medicine
Male medicine.medical_specialty 030106 microbiology Iatrogenic Disease Ischemia Autopsy Malignancy Injections Intramuscular 03 medical and health sciences Medicine Humans Clostridium business.industry High mortality Soft tissue General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Surgery Klebsiella Infections Klebsiella pneumoniae Foreign body business Intramuscular injection Gas Gangrene Gas gangrene |
| Zdroj: | The Medico-legal journal. 84(1) |
| ISSN: | 2042-1834 |
| Popis: | Skin and soft tissue infections of the lower limbs are quite common and can at times progress rapidly to become both limb and life-threatening infections. Muscular infections usually occur in areas of the body that have been compromised or injured by a foreign body, trauma, ischaemia, injection of illicit drugs, malignancy or surgery. Gas gangrene is one such limb-threatening infection. The gas-forming infection can be clostridial or non-clostridial. Clostridia are the main causative organism of the gas gangrene. Non-clostridial gas gangrene is a rare condition and is known to be associated with high mortality. Here, we report one such rare case where a middle-aged man succumbed to non-clostridial gas gangrene after he was administered an intramuscular injection. The case was registered as a suspicious death by the police and the body was subjected to medico legal autopsy. |
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