Necrotizing fasciitis, caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, is an extremely rare and life-threatening bacterial soft tissue infection. We report a case of early necrotizing fasciitis associated with Streptococcus pneumoniae infection in a 26-year-old man who was immunocompromised with mixed connective tissue disease. The patient presented with acute, painful, erythematous, and edematous skin les...

Necrotizing Fasciitis is a rapidly progressive, potentially fatal infection of superficial fasciae and subcutaneous tissue, usually resulting from an inciting trauma to the skin. Medical literature refers few cases of necrotizing fasciitis related to intra-articular infiltrations, that often lead to patients death. This report describes the clinical events on a 55 year-old diabetic patient who ...

Necrotizing fasciitis is a bacterial infection affecting the deep dermis, the hypodermis and the superficial aponeurosis. It is a severe lethal infection in 30% of cases. Polymicrobial association is frequently found. The factors associated with necrotizing fasciitis are diabetes, chronic alcoholism, intravenous drug use and immunosuppression. We report the clinical case of a 65-year old diabet...

INTRODUCTION Necrotizing fasciitis is a rare and life-threatening rapidly progressive soft tissue infection. A fulminant case could involve muscle and bone. Necrotizing fasciitis after corticosteroid therapy and intramuscular injection of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs has been reported. We present a case of fulminant necrotizing fasciitis occurring in a patient who used a herbal concoct...

Background: Insect bites have been described as the cause of necrotizing fasciitis (NF) especially in patients with suppressed immune systems, burns, or trauma. It is a serious necrotizing process which involves the fascia of the skin. Patients usually experience pain, edema and a dusky bluish-red discolouration of the skin with or without bullae formation. Failure to identify NF can result in ...

AIM To study the protective effects of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) antibody on pancreatic encephalopathy in rats. METHODS One hundred and twenty SD rats were randomly divided into normal control group, acute necrotizing pancreatitis group and TNFalpha antibody treated group. Acute hemorrhage necrotizing pancreatitis model in rats was induced by retrograde injection of 50 g/L sodium...

PURPOSE To report a case of peripheral ulcerative keratitis and necrotizing scleritis precipitated by trauma in a patient with mixed cryoglobulinemia due to hepatitis C viral infection. METHODS Case report and literature review. RESULTS A 62-year-old man with a history of mixed cryoglobulinemia developed an episode of necrotizing scleritis and peripheral ulcerative keratitis one month after...

background: necrotizing enterocolitis (nec) is one of the most destructive diseases associated with conditions of neonatal prematurity. supplementation with enteral prebiotics may reduce the incidence of nec, especially in infants who fed exclusively with breast-milk. therefore, we compared the efficacy and safety of enteral supplementation of a prebiotic mixture (short chain galacto-oligosacch...

Aspergillus is a ubiquitous fungus and can cause many levels of disease severity. Chronic necrotizing aspergillosis is a rare disease and few cases have been reported in Korea. We experienced a case of pleural aspergillosis that was treated successfully with medical and surgical interventions. The 52-year-old man who was diagnosed with chronic necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis underwent surgi...