Gnoyno-septicheskie oslozhneniya u lits, stradayushchikh parenteral'noy narkomaniey

The paper analyzes the results of treatment in 297 patients with pyoseptic diseases of soft tissues and drug abuse. There has been recently an increase in the number of admissions for postinjection complications from 0.8 to 9.3% of the treated patients. Thirty-nine (13.1%) patients were observed to have severe anaerobic clostridial and non-clostridial infection with extensive soft tissue involvement as necrotic fasciocellulitis and myositis. Eighty-one (27.3%) patients developed sepsis caused mainly by aurococci and anaerobes. In addition to purulent changes, there were postinjection complications associated with vein or arterial vascular bed lesion in 61 (20.5%) patients. The paper also shows the specific features of ultrasound and microbiological diagnosis in this category of patients.

drug abuse, pyoseptic complications, sepsis, ultrasound diagnosis, microbiological diagnosis