Publication at Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové |
2014
Abstract
The authors present a case report of a forty-five-year-old patient operated on for acute appendicitis who developed gas gangrene of the abdominal wall within 48 hours after an appendectomy and subsequently also clostridial sepsis. Due to early diagnosis and intensive care, the patient survived.
Clostridial myonecrosis is a rare complication after abdominal surgery and may be fatal in many cases. In our literature, there are only a few publications describing cases of patients who survived this rare postoperative complication.