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Gas gangrene in patient with atherosclerosis obliterans. | LitMetric

Gas gangrene in patient with atherosclerosis obliterans.

Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann

First Department of Surgery, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

Published: June 2002

Clostridia are the main cause of nontraumatic spontaneous gas gangrene. Poor blood flow due to arterial occlusion exacerbates the anaerobic condition. Fulminant gas gangrene in a 54-year-old man with atherosclerosis obliterans was treated by revascularization of the iliac artery using endarterectomy, and his gangrenous lower leg was amputated. However, he died from renal failure.

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