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31-year-old injection drug user with massive skin necrosis and shock
Ulrich R Hengge1, Martin Beiderlinden, Friedrich Otterbach
1Department of Dermatology, University of Essen, Germany. ulrich.hengge@uni-essen.de
Dermatology (Basel, Switzerland)
|February 20, 2003
Abstract:
Massive tissue necrosis and septic shock have recently been reported in a series of injection drug users in Scotland, England and Ireland. We report the first case outside the UK meeting the criteria for this new entity (septic shock without fever in an injection drug user, local and systemic inflammation, rhabdomyolysis and tissue necrosis at the injection site). Following surgical treatment and antibiotic treatment, the patient was cured and is currently well.