Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) Research for Necrotizing Fasciitis
Abstract: Necrotizing fasciitis is a serious life-threatening disease. A series of 11 patients with this disease is described, with emphasis on clinical diagnosis, initiating factors, associated diseases, etiologic pathogens and treatment. The following conclusions...
Abstract: Necrotizing fascitis of the head and neck is a rare condition with only 7 cases recorded in the literature. Two cases are presented in which there was massive necrosis of the soft tissues of the neck with extension into the mediastinum. The offending...
Abstract: Bakker, , , , , , , , (1980). [The treatment of acute skin gangrene (necrotizing fasciitis and progressive bacterial gangrene) with hyperbaric oxygenation]. Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde, 1980...
Abstract: The author's experience of fourteen patients with necrotizing fasciitis is reviewed. The pathognomonic feature of this condition is an extensive necrosis of subcutaneous tissue caused by a vicious cycle of infection, local ischaemia and reduced host defence...