A few patients may develop gangrene (the death of soft tissue) in their hands and feet.
Click to enlarge Synergistic gangrene is a polymicrobial infection.
Dry gangrene in the well perfused neuropathic foot, surgical amputation of the affected part will usually be performed.
Gas gangrene is caused by Clostridia and the most common causative organism is Clostridium perfringens, which produces exotoxins that cause local tissue damage.
Guthrie also advocated the destruction with mineral acids of the diseased tissues in cases of ' hospital gangrene ' .
He died of gangrene of the leg in his seventieth year.
He had gangrene in his left leg and the doctors considered that amputation was necessary to save his life.
If malrotation or duodenal volvulus has caused the blood supply to be cut off in a portion of the intestine before surgery, death of intestinal tissue can result and life-threatening gangrene can develop.
If the amount of liquid contained in the tissue be small in quantity the part mummifies, giving rise to what is known as " dry gangrene."
If the dead part be protected from the ingress of putrefactive organisms, however, it separates from that which is living without the ordinary evidences of gangrene, and is then known as an " aseptic slough."
If the flow of arterial blood only is arrested, the part depending upon it for nutrition becomes numb, cold and shrivelled, and the form of mortification known as dry gangrene occurs.
If wet gangrene is present, again, comfort is the priority.
In any case do not keep the ligature on for more than an hour for fear of gangrene.
In spreading gangrene, in which acute sepsis is present, and in which no line of demarcation forms, the best chance for the patient is promptly to amputate high up in sound tissues.
In the gangrenous form various parts of the body underwent gangrene as a consequence of the arrest of bloodsupply produced by the action of sphacelinic acid on the arteries.
Infection followed operations almost as a matter of course and the dread scourge 'hospital gangrene ' spread from one ward to another like wildfire.
It was also formerly used on wounds to prevent gangrene.
It was used for various antibacterial purposes, and in World War I and World War II it was used to protect against gangrene in wounds.
Local necrosis is mainly ischaemic as thrombosis blocks the local blood vessels and causes dry gangrene.
Louis Pasteur first observed garlic's antibacterial qualities in 1858, and until World War II is was routinely used to prevent gangrene in patients with infected wounds.
Mortality in infants who have gangrene or peritonitis is particularly high in those with other defects.
Nevertheless, gangrene is nothing more or less than the putrefactive fermentation of an animal tissue still attached to the body.
One of its proposals was that attempts must be made to reduce the rate of limb amputations caused by diabetic gangrene by a half.
Smokers who ignore the warning of early symptoms and continue to smoke are more likely to develop gangrene of a leg.
Strangulation occurs in about 25 percent of bowel obstruction cases and is a serious condition that can progress to gangrene within six to 12 hours.
Swallowing cocaine can interfere with blood flow to the intestines, leading to tissue death and gangrene.
The blood suffers first; its pigment is dissolved out and soaks into the surroundings, imparting to them the pink hue so diagnostic of commencing gangrene.
The condition can range in severity from minor discomfort to the onset of ulcers or even gangrene.
The disease organisms then cause the death (necrosis) of bowel tissue or gangrene of the bowel.
This practice seems to have the ability to cause massive venous thrombosis leading to edema and venous gangrene.
Toes can become gangrenous and can appear black in dry gangrene or when infected becomes covered in pus and slough in wet gangrene.
Twisting of any portion of the intestines may cut off the supply of blood to a loop of bowel (strangulation), reducing the flow of oxygen to bowel tissue (ischemia) and leading to tissue death (gangrene).
Type A is the usual gas gangrene organism in man.
We have to clean this up, make sure he doesn't get gangrene.
Without such skin treatments, serious skin infections can lead to gangrene.