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Image:AUTOAMPUTATE1.JPG|Diabetic with severe infection and loss of toes - wet gangrene in center. <br> (Image courtesy of Charlie Goldberg, M.D., UCSD School of Medicine and VA Medical Center, San Diego, CA) | Image:AUTOAMPUTATE1.JPG|Diabetic with severe infection and loss of toes - wet gangrene in center. <br> | ||
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====Gas Gangrene==== | ====Gas Gangrene==== | ||
Gas gangrene can cause [[necrosis]] and gas production. | Gas gangrene can cause [[necrosis]] and gas production. | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Edzel Lorraine Co, D.M.D., M.D.
Overview
Patients with gangrene may have varying presentations depending on the type of gangrene they have.
Physical Examination
Patients with gangrene may have varying presentations depending on the type of gangrene they have.
General Appearance
- Patient with gangrene usually appears conscious, coherent, and not in cardiorespiratory distress.
Vital Signs
- Blood pressure is usually low.
HEENT
- Head: Head can be normocephalic.
Chest/Lungs
- Gangrene can lead to sepsis which may manifest with decreased chest expansion, and decreased breath sounds.
Cardiovascular
- Gangrene can lead to sepsis which may manifest with dynamic precordium, [[[irregular heart rate]], irregular rhythm, and with heart murmurs.
Abdomen
- Patients usually has no pertinent findings.
Skin/Extremities
Dry Gangrene
- The affected part is dry, shrunken and dark black, resembling mummified flesh.
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Diabetic ulceration with central "dry" gangrene and toward the edges wet gangrene with some ascending cellulitis
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Patient with peripheral vascular disease that has lead to infarct of several toes.
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Same patient. Normal left foot for comparison.
(Image courtesy of Charlie Goldberg, M.D., UCSD School of Medicine and VA Medical Center, San Diego, CA)
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Patient with peripheral vascular disease that has lead to infarct of several toes.
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Same patient. Normal left foot for comparison.
(Images courtesy of Charlie Goldberg, M.D., UCSD School of Medicine and VA Medical Center, San Diego, CA)
Wet Gangrene
The affected part is edematous, soft, putrid, rotten and dark.
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Diabetic with severe infection and loss of toes - wet gangrene in center.
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Gas Gangrene
Gas gangrene can cause necrosis and gas production.