European Journal of Dermatology



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Adapting a Vacuum Assisted Closure dressing to challenging wounds: negative pressure treatment for perineal necrotizing fasciitis with rectal prolapse in a newborn affected by acute myeloid leukaemia
European Journal of Dermatology. Volume 20, Number 4, 501-3, July-August 2010, Clinical report
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Author(s) : Luca NEGOSANTI, Arianna ACETI, Tommaso BIANCHI, Luigi CORVAGLIA, Francesca NEGOSANTI, Rossella SGARZANI, Paolo Giovanni MORSELLI, Riccardo CIPRIANI, Massimino NEGOSANTI, Annalisa PATRIZI, Giacomo FALDELLA
Summary : We report the case of a newborn with acute myeloid leukaemia, who developed perineal necrotizing fasciitis due to Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, after twenty days of life. Following surgical debridement, she was effectively treated with topical negative pressure therapy (V.A.C. ^® device) with silver foam dressings, this achieved complete closure in thirteen days. Negative pressure therapy should be considered when conventional wound care fails to achieve complete wound closure, even in neonates.
Keywords : necrotizing fascitiis, negative pressure therapy, neonatal infection, vacuum assisted closure dressing, wound care

Adapting a Vacuum Assisted Closure dressing to challenging wounds: negative pressure treatment for perineal necrotizing fasciitis with rectal prolapse in a newborn affected by acute myeloid leukaemia