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ReviewCureus2023

A Comprehensive Literature Review of Fournier's Gangrene in Females.

Aisha Khalid, Sahana Devakumar, Ivan Huespe, Rahul Kashyap, Imran Chisti

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Review in Cureus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. Local immunosuppression in ofatumumab: a series of three cases with bacterial infections near the injection sites.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2024
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  8. Heliyon · 2024
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  10. Fournier gangrene - would you KISS it?GMS Interdisciplinary plastic and reconstructive surgery DGPW · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Aisha KhalidResearch, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
Sahana DevakumarInternal Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum, IND.
Ivan HuespeCritical Care, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, ARG.
Rahul KashyapResearch, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
Imran ChistiCritical Care Medicine, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fournier gangrene (FG) is a rare but rapidly progressing disease with a higher mortality rate in women as compared to men. This study aims to perform a literature review about FG in females and associated mortality and morbidity. We searched databases including MEDLINE (Ovid), the National Library of Medicine (Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)), the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Wiley), as well as Embase (Ovid), Scopus, and Global Index Medicus (WHO), and reviewed literature from 2002 to 2022 and selected 22 studies that met our study's inclusion criteria, which included 134 female patients with a mean age of 55±6 years. The perineal abscess was a more common nidus (n=41, 35%; 95%CI 23-39%) than vulvar pathology (n=29, 22%; 95%CI 15-30%). The most common initial presentation was cellulitis (n=62, 46%; 95%CI 38-55%), followed by perineal pain (n=54, 40%; 95%CI 32-50%), fever (n=47, 35%; 95%CI 27-43%), and septic shock (n=38, 28%; 95%CI 21-37%).

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diabete mellitusfemalefournier gangrenemortality rate in sepsissurgical debridement

Identifiers

PMID37197302
PMCPMC10184784

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