“The Clock Is Ticking”: The Timely Management of a Painful Skin Rash in a Seventy-Year-Old Woman
Necrotizing fasciitis is an uncommon but a potentially fatal condition and can affect any part of the body. Most patients have pre-existing conditions that render them susceptible to infection, although etiology is unclear. Diagnosis is primarily clinical and is often delayed because of the unfamili...
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| description | Necrotizing fasciitis is an uncommon but a potentially fatal condition and can affect any part of the body. Most patients have pre-existing conditions that render them susceptible to infection, although etiology is unclear. Diagnosis is primarily clinical and is often delayed because of the unfamiliarity of the condition among clinicians. Management consists of immediate resuscitation, early surgical debridement, and administration of broad spectrum intravenous antibiotics. We report a case of a 70 year old woman who presented with a painful erythematous rash, was admitted as a case of cellulitis, later developed worsening of symptoms and septic shock, and was diagnosed as necrotizing fasciitis. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a67daa2f64ac4f0ebc39c1850b662d482025-02-03T01:03:46ZengWileyCase Reports in Medicine1687-96271687-96352014-01-01201410.1155/2014/641058641058“The Clock Is Ticking”: The Timely Management of a Painful Skin Rash in a Seventy-Year-Old WomanSusan Thomas0Folashade Omole1Vijaykumar G. Patel2Michelle L. Nichols3Department of Family Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, 1513 East Cleveland Avenue, Building 100, Suite 300A, Atlanta, GA 30344, USADepartment of Family Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, 1513 East Cleveland Avenue, Building 100, Suite 300A, Atlanta, GA 30344, USADepartment of Surgery, Morehouse School of Medicine, 1513 East Cleveland Avenue, Building 100, Suite 300A, Atlanta, GA 30344, USADepartment of Family Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, 1513 East Cleveland Avenue, Building 100, Suite 300A, Atlanta, GA 30344, USANecrotizing fasciitis is an uncommon but a potentially fatal condition and can affect any part of the body. Most patients have pre-existing conditions that render them susceptible to infection, although etiology is unclear. Diagnosis is primarily clinical and is often delayed because of the unfamiliarity of the condition among clinicians. Management consists of immediate resuscitation, early surgical debridement, and administration of broad spectrum intravenous antibiotics. We report a case of a 70 year old woman who presented with a painful erythematous rash, was admitted as a case of cellulitis, later developed worsening of symptoms and septic shock, and was diagnosed as necrotizing fasciitis.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/641058 |
| spellingShingle | Susan Thomas Folashade Omole Vijaykumar G. Patel Michelle L. Nichols “The Clock Is Ticking”: The Timely Management of a Painful Skin Rash in a Seventy-Year-Old Woman Case Reports in Medicine |
| title | “The Clock Is Ticking”: The Timely Management of a Painful Skin Rash in a Seventy-Year-Old Woman |
| title_full | “The Clock Is Ticking”: The Timely Management of a Painful Skin Rash in a Seventy-Year-Old Woman |
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| title_full_unstemmed | “The Clock Is Ticking”: The Timely Management of a Painful Skin Rash in a Seventy-Year-Old Woman |
| title_short | “The Clock Is Ticking”: The Timely Management of a Painful Skin Rash in a Seventy-Year-Old Woman |
| title_sort | the clock is ticking the timely management of a painful skin rash in a seventy year old woman |
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