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ArticleBMC anesthesiology2020

Necrotizing fasciitis caused by the treatment of chronic non-specific back pain.

Lilit Floether, Michael Bucher, Ralf Benndorf, Anna-Maria Burgdorff

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Article in BMC anesthesiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Lilit FloetherDepartment of Anesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care, University Hospital Halle (Saale), Ernst-Grube-Straße 40, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany. lilit.floether@uk-halle.de.ORCID 0000-0003-4825-327X
Michael BucherDepartment of Anesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care, University Hospital Halle (Saale), Ernst-Grube-Straße 40, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany.
Ralf BenndorfDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacotherapy, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
Anna-Maria BurgdorffDepartment of Anesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care, University Hospital Halle (Saale), Ernst-Grube-Straße 40, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany.
University Hospital in Halle · DEMartin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundChronic back pain is a multifactorial disease that occurs particularly in adults and has many negative effects on the quality of daily life. Therapeutic strategies are often multimodal and designed for a long-term therapy period. In some cases, one option is joint infiltration or intrathecal injection with local anaesthetics. An adverse effect of this intervention may be necrotic fasciitis, a disease with high mortality and few therapeutic options. CASE PRESENTATION: This case shows a 53-year-old female patient who developed necrotic fasciitis after infiltrations of the sacroiliac joint and after epidural-sacral and intrathecal injections.

conclusionThanks to early and aggressive surgical intervention, antibiotic treatment and hyperbaric oxygenation, she survived this serious complication and was able to return to life.

Indexed as

Anesthetics, LocalAnti-Bacterial AgentsBack PainChronic PainFasciitis, NecrotizingFemaleHumansHyperbaric OxygenationInjections, SpinalMiddle AgedAnesthetics, LocalAnti-Bacterial AgentsChronic back painHyperbaric oxygenationInfiltrationNecrotizing fasciitis

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PMID32979925
PMCPMC7519487
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