Necrosis can develop into “a serious bacterial infection that destroys tissue under the skin,” he says. “It is very aggressive and if untreated, deadly.” The disease is also easily ...

There have been some reports of necrosis at the injection site following receipt of the 23-valent pneumococcal vaccine, but the vaccine’s overall benefit-risk balance “remains favorable,&rdquo ...

A man whose overpowering odor caused a Transavia Airlines flight to make an emergency landing in Portugal last month has died from tissue necrosis, according to Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.The ...

A 69-year-old woman presented with a large, deep area of skin necrosis on the right breast. One month earlier, the patient had undergone a surgical treatment for a frontal-parietal meningioma.

To confirm that deoxydihydroceramide was indeed responsible for tissue necrosis, the UNIGE team introduced a human mutation causing a rare disease, HSAN type I, ...

Researchers defined soft tissue necrosis as ulceration of the surgical bed that developed more than 6 weeks after postoperative radiation therapy and required opioids, biopsy or hyperbaric oxygen ...

Classic manifestations of necrotizing fasciitis include soft-tissue edema (in 75% of cases), erythema (72%), severe pain (72%), tenderness (68%), fever (60%), and skin bullae or necrosis (38%). 8 ...

The extensive necrosis of muscle fibers, the hemorrhage, the proliferation of fibrous connective tissue and the muscle regeneration indicated an acute destructive process that was subsiding.

Warfarin-induced skin necrosis (WISN) occurs in only 0.01%-0.1% [1,4,5] of patients taking the drug; the incidence is higher in middle-aged women. This side effect typically appears during the ...