Surgical Management of Concurrent Septic Arthritis and Forearm Necrotizing Fasciitis in an Immunocompromised Patient With a 20-Year History of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: A Case Report
Burak Ozturk, Arın Celayir, Ali Osman G Cibikci, Cumhur Deniz Davulcu, Gokhan Kaynak · 2024
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Ozturk and co-authors (2024) report the surgical care of a man who had two severe infections at once: a septic shoulder joint and necrotizing fasciitis in the forearm. Both conditions destroy tissue fast and can kill without prompt antibiotics and surgery. His defenses were weakened by chronic lymphocytic leukemia, carried untreated for 20 years.
He arrived with a working diagnosis of septic arthritis of the shoulder. On examination, the team also suspected gas gangrene in the arm and forearm, another fast-moving tissue infection. The report walks through how the two infections present, how they are told apart from look-alikes through examination, blood tests, imaging, and joint fluid sampling, and how the surgical treatment proceeded. The authors present the case as a warning that in a patient with a weakened immune system, one dramatic infection can hide a second one nearby.
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| CREATOR | Burak Ozturk, Arın Celayir, Ali Osman G Cibikci, Cumhur Deniz Davulcu, Gokhan Kaynak |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 12 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |