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Lilit Floether1, Michael Bucher2, Ralf Benndorf3
1Department of Anesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care, University Hospital Halle (Saale), Ernst-Grube-Straße 40, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany. lilit.floether@uk-halle.de.
Background:
Chronic back pain is a multifactorial disease that occurs particularly in adults and has many negative effects on the quality of daily life. Therapeutic strategies are often multimodal and designed for a long-term therapy period. In some cases, one option is joint infiltration or intrathecal injection with local anaesthetics. An adverse effect of this intervention may be necrotic fasciitis, a disease with high mortality and few therapeutic options.
Case Presentation:
This case shows a 53-year-old female patient who developed necrotic fasciitis after infiltrations of the sacroiliac joint and after epidural-sacral and intrathecal injections.
Conclusion:
Thanks to early and aggressive surgical intervention, antibiotic treatment and hyperbaric oxygenation, she survived this serious complication and was able to return to life.
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