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Gas Gangrene in Patient With Atherosclerosis Obliterans

First Department of Surgery Teikyo University School of Medicine Tokyo, Japan
Masanori Niimi, MD Tel: 81 3 3964 1228 Fax: 81 3 3962 2128 email: mniimi{at}med.teikyo-u.ac.jp First Department of Surgery, Teikyo University School of Medicine, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-8605, Japan.

Clostridia are the main cause of nontraumatic spontaneous gas gangrene. Poor blood flow due to arterial occlusion exacerbates the anaerobic condition. Fulminant gas gangrene in a 54-year-old man with atherosclerosis obliterans was treated by revascularization of the iliac artery using endarterectomy, and his gangrenous lower leg was amputated. However, he died from renal failure.