Experience of Fournier’s gangrene clinical diagnostics

Fungal Fourniers Gangrene in an Immunocompromised Patient

Fournier's Gangrene is a rapidly progressive necrotizing fasciitis of the groin, perianal and perineal region that is often polymicrobial in nature, often averaging 3 species of bacteria per patient. The typical infection can be due to a host of microbes, including gram positive, gram negative and anaerobic species including. Many of the causative organisms are found in the normal microbial flo...

Abstract: Surviving Fourniers Gangrene: Contemporary Treatment and Development of a Novel Scoring System

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Fourniers gangrene following hyfrecation in a male infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.

Diagnostics and territorial experience

Lymph-oedema is a chronic disease, not easily controllable with evolutive, progressive tendency. Since 2001 in the angiological outpatients’surgery inside of Operative Unit of Territorial Rehabilitation, in the ambit of patients affected by lymph-oedema, also the rehabilitative projects of geriatric patients affected by secondary post-surgery lower and upper limb lymphoedema, contained the ther...

A clinical case of Fournier gangrene.

OBJECTIVE To present a case of Fournier gangrene and the specific surgical therapy CASE PRESENTATION A 71-year old patient with a two days history of pain in the perineal region, swelling, developing necrosis and foul-smelling lesions was examined in emergency settings. The swelling of subcutaneous plane involved the flank regions, mainly on the left side. The investigations were performed (f...