Necrotizing fasciitis
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Clinic
- NF, also known as flesh-eating disease, is a [[[Skin disease]]]
- It is a bacterial gangrenous infection of superficial soft tissue
- Symptoms usually include red or purple skin in the affected area, severe pain, fever, and vomiting
- The most common affected areas are limbs and perineum.
Signs / Symptoms
- Fever
- Swelling
- Excessive pain
- It starts with [[[Cellulitis]]] / [[[Abscess]]like image but in the following days Necrotizing changes occur
Other signs are:
- Formation of bullae
- Bleeding
- Skin turning from red to purple and black due to thrombosis of blood vessels)
- Presence of gas in tissues
- Reduced or absent sensation over the skin due to underlying nerves necrosis
- Rapid progression to shock
Necrotizing changes affecting the groin are known as Fournier gangrene.[2]
Cause
Bacterial
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Streptococcus pyogenes
- Enterococci
- Escherichia coli
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Bacteroides
- Clostridium species
- Clostridium perfringens
- Clostridium septicum
- Clostridium sordellii