Necrotizing soft tissue infection following a peripheral bypass

Annals of Vascular Surgery
Carly R RichardsDwight C Kellicut

Abstract

Necrotizing soft tissue infection (NSTI), formerly referred to as necrotizing fasciitis, is a rare but serious postoperative complication. NSTI following arterial bypass is seen only once in the literature (for a coronary artery bypass) and is not mentioned following peripheral bypass. Although surgical site infections have been studied extensively, there are limited published data on postoperative NSTI and no data for NSTI following peripheral arterial bypass. Here we present the first, to our knowledge, reported instance of an NSTI following a lower extremity peripheral bypass. Despite the continued function of the bypass, the patient became rapidly systemically ill with a focus at the surgical site. Because of prompt surgical debridement, the patient survived this severe infection, though did require an above the knee amputation to control the rapid spread of the disease. The patient, a native of American Samoa, was infected with organisms infrequently associated with NSTI, Morganella morganii and Aeromonas hydrophila. This article discusses the diagnosis and treatment of this rare postoperative complication, along with a brief review of the microbiology of the disease. NSTI is a rare but lethal postoperative complication. T...Continue Reading

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