Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) Research for Anaerobic Bacterial Infection.
Abstract: Necrotizing fasciitis is a severe, fulminant infection most commonly encountered in patients with diabetes mellitus, alcohol abuse, and intravenous drug abuse. The infection can spread-unrecognized along fascial planes beneath seemingly normal skin. The...
Abstract: Nectrotizing fasciitis is a mixed infection of skin and subcutaneous tissue with a characteristic clinical and pathological appearance. Necrotizing soft tissue infections, caused by aerobic, anaerobic and mixed bacterial flora are an increasing problem in...
Abstract: Optimal tissue oxygenation, as obtained by hyperbaric oxygen therapy, potentiates or restores the host's bactericidal mechanisms and wound healing activity in patients afflicted by serious synergeic aerobic and anaerobic infections of the cutaneous and...
Abstract: We report a rare case of spontaneously developing generalised gas gangrene with massive rhabdomyolysis after a cholecystectomy and drainage of a hepatic abscess. On preoperative physical examination the patient appeared severely ill and was icteric and...
Abstract: This report illustrates the clinical and pathological findings of anaerobic streptococcal myonecrosis following extraperitoneal rectal injury in a 28-year-old patient with traumatic pelvic ring disruption. Four days following admission, the patient underwent...
Abstract: Anaerobic soft tissue infections are still life threatening infections. Although their frequency is actually moderate; they remain severe because physicians are often insufficiently aware of them. Although the classification between myonecrosis and...
Abstract: Necrotizing fasciitis is an uncommon soft-tissue infection, usually caused by toxin-producing, virulent bacteria, which is characterized by widespread fascial necrosis with relative sparing of skin and underlying muscle. It is accompanied by local pain,...
Abstract: Fournier's gangrene, an anaerobic necrotizing cellulitis of the infradiaphragmatic soft tissues, is a serious pathologic entity with an unpredictable course. From 1978 to 1991, a total of 24 men (mean age, 57 years; range 27 to 90) were treated for this...
Abstract: The etiological pattern of non-clostridial anaerobic infection, its natural history and drug therapy in patients with its various types were studied and analyzed at the Surgery Research Center, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. Peritonitis and cholangitis...