SPREADING GANGRENOUS CELLULITIS.

Hospital-acquired gangrenous mucormycosis.

A post-operative diabetic patient who had been treated for Serratia marcescens bacterial sepsis developed recurrent thrombosis of the left femoral artery following intra-arterial instrumentation. Pathological examination of arterial thrombus ultimately demonstrated invasive mucormycosis of the femoral artery and cultures of this material grew Rhizopus oryzae. The occurrence of cutaneous and sub...

Gangrenous Stomatitis Following Dysentery

a case of gangrenous stomatitis following an attack of bacillary dysentery in your correspondence columns. The patient, a boy aged about 3 years, was suffering from bacillary dysentery for about a fortnight before the onset of gangrenous stomatitis. General debility was probably the predisposing cause. It is usually considered that this rare disease occurs during convalescence from acute fevers...

Gangrenous Lung Disease

Normal lung function requires both adequate lung ventilation and adequate perfusion. Adequate lung perfusion means normal blood flow can reach to the lung tissues providing nutrients and oxygen to the lung tissues and the waste can be removed. Perfusion of the lung may be disturbed in numerous settings, including infection, aspiration of foreign body, neoplasm[1], trauma and may be secondary to...

Prontosil Album in Gangrenous Stomatitis

A male child, aged about 10 years, was admitted for frequency of stools with blood and mucus for 20 days, following an attack of measles. The patient was extremely emaciated with subnormal temperature and pulse about 120 per minute. Stools, 20 to 30 in a day, consisted of only blood and mucus. Treatment with emetine, kaolin, bismuth and rectal washes caused the frequency of stools greatly to di...

Gangrenous Stomatitis Following the Puerperium