Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) is a life-threatening bacterial infection causing necrosis ... surgical debridement, and skin grafting. In the following two articles, the pathophysiology, medical ...

The patient, Dayaram, had been battling the infection for the past two months ... took on the challenge. Utilising the split ...

prosthetic graft infections, and infections of sites inside the chest and abdomen or of the skin and eye. While it is uncommon, healthy young people may also develop invasive listeriosis. One of the ...

Sometimes, antibiotics are prescribed to stave off infection. The need for advanced ... The method for treating life-threatening burns, such as skin grafting, is painful and yields less than ...

Liz Baugh, a cruise line medical consultant with more than 25 years of expertise in maritime medicine, confirmed that much of ...

Intact fish skin grafts could be an effective treatment for wound closure in patients with severe types of diabetic foot ulcers, showed a clinical trial.

and infection control. Diabetic foot ulcers treated with intact fish-skin graft were also associated with faster wound ...

If patients are too seriously burned to endure this additional damage, surgeons attempt skin grafts from other sources ... are at such high risk for infection that it's not safe to suppress ...

Erythema means reddening of the skin due to inflammation which is usually a result of accumulation of cells of the immune system and chemicals these cells release. There can be many reasons for the ...

A man deliberately threw a pan of boiling corrosive liquid into a man's face in order to permanently disfigure him because ...

The Alfred Hospital hosts one of a handful of labs around Australia working on engineered skin, a promising therapy that uses ...