Aeromonas hydrophila: myofascial necrosis and sepsis

Intensive Care Med. 1992;18(3):172-4. doi: 10.1007/BF01709242.

Abstract

An alcoholic patient with ascites was admitted to the intensive care unit for gastrointestinal bleeding. He subsequently developed spontaneous myonecrosis of the extremities culminating in sepsis syndrome. This was a unique, non-traumatic presentation of Aeromonas hydrophila soft tissue injury.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aeromonas hydrophila*
  • Alcoholism / complications
  • Bacteremia / blood
  • Bacteremia / etiology*
  • Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / complications
  • Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / complications
  • Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / diagnostic imaging*
  • Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / pathology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Muscular Diseases / complications
  • Muscular Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
  • Muscular Diseases / pathology
  • Necrosis
  • Radiography