Abstract Background Acral vascular syndrome clinically presents as digital ischemia with Raynaud’s phenomenon and erythromelalgia but can be rarely seen in the malignant condition. Patients may present pain, permanent blanching or cyanosis, desquamation ulceration of fingers. is associated lymphoid neoplasm smoking, autoimmune connective tissue diseases, vasculitis. Here, we describe a 79-year-...

Peripheral arterial aneurysms are a feature of Kawasaki disease (KD), and very little information has been published on this feature. Failure to recognize this important complication can lead to severe consequences such as peripheral gangrene. We present the case of a 2-year-old girl, diagnosed with KD at 11 months of age, who developed multiple giant aneurysms in the bilateral axillary arterie...

Critical limb ischemia (CLI) is a common health problem among adults. CLI progressive type of peripheral artery disease associated with non-healing ulceration and ischemic pain at rest. Patients may suffer from gangrene, consequence arterial occlusive disease. have high-risk developing chronic issues such as hyperlipidemia, renal failure, hypertension, diabetes mellitus. The well-being patients...

11 Extremely low birth weight neonates who developed skin discoloration after peripheral arterial catheterization were given intra-arterial papaverine before the removal of arterial line. The skin color turned normal in all these neonates and none developed residual damage. In 3 neonates who could not receive papaverine, one developed gangrene of fingers.

Association of symmetric peripheral gangrene (SPG) with falciparum malaria infection is a relatively uncommon clinical entity. Here we report a case of complicated falciparum malaria with SPG involving both lower limbs from the mid-calf downwards, probably due to antibody mediated vasculitis.

Acute peripheral arterial occlusion may lead to gangrene, with loss of parts of arms and legs. Three infants with disseminated intravascular clotting developed dark red discoloration of the tips of fingers and toes which progressed proximally. Repeated hyperbaric oxygenation treatments caused regression of the demarcation line and further progression of necrosis stopped.

A 51-year-old male with hepatitis C and a history of intravenous (IV) drug use presented to the emergency department, reporting one day of worsening scrotal pain and swelling. He denied diabetes, trauma, or infection with HIV. His genitourinary examination revealed a draining lesion in his left inguinal region with surrounding induration and cellulitis extending onto his perineum. His scrotum w...

Introduction: Fournier’s gangrene is a rapidly progressive necrotizing soft tissue infection with very high mortality and due to evolving synergistic polymicrobial infections of aerobes anaerobes in perineum genital area. Multiple predisposing factors include diabetes mellitus, alcoholism, immunosuppression, renal hepatic disease. In the vast majority cases, scrotum most commonly affected. Case...

Reports of ergot poisoning are rare in the literature in English (Robertson and Ashby, 1928; Gabbai, Lisbonne, and Pourquier, 1951; Jones and Williams, 1966). The toxic effects of ergot appear to be enhanced in the presence of febrile and septic states and in liver disease (Brazeau, 1965), and we report a patient with ergotism leading to peripheral gangrene, who also suffered from acute hepatic...