Necrotizing fasciitis in patients with diabetes mellitus: Clinical characteristics and risk factors for mortality

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Cheng, Nai Chen ^a   Tai, Hao Chih ^a   Chang, Shan Chwen ^a   Chang, Chin Hao ^a   Lai, Hong Shiee ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Mortality; Necrotizing fasciitis; Risk factor; Soft tissue infection

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; GLUCOSE; OXACILLIN; POTASSIUM;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; INFECTION CONTROL; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEG INJURY; LIMB AMPUTATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRUNK; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; AMPUTATION; BLOOD; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATHOGENICITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TAIWAN;

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; BACTEREMIA; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POTASSIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TAIWAN;

EID: 84944066882     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-015-1144-0     Document Type: Article

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