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Descriptor English: Gas Gangrene
Descriptor Spanish: Gangrena Gaseosa
Descriptor gangrena gaseosa
Scope note: Afección grave resultante de la invasión bacteriana del músculo sano a partir de un músculo adyacente traumatizado o de tejidos blandos. La infección se origina en una herida contaminada con bacterias del género CLOSTRIDIUM. C. perfringens explica la mayoría de los casos (más de ochenta por ciento), en tanto el C. noyvi, C. septicum, y C. histolyticum causa la mayoría de los otros casos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Gangrena Gasosa
Descriptor French: Gangrène gazeuse
Entry term(s): Gangrene, Gas
Gangrenes, Gas
Gas Gangrenes
Tree number(s): C01.150.252.410.222.440
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005738
Scope note: A severe condition resulting from bacteria invading healthy muscle from adjacent traumatized muscle or soft tissue. The infection originates in a wound contaminated with bacteria of the genus CLOSTRIDIUM. C. perfringens accounts for the majority of cases (over eighty percent), while C. noyvi, C. septicum, and C. histolyticum cause most of the other cases.
Annotation: usually caused by Clostridium perfringens but all C. perfringens infections need not be gas gangrene
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
TM transmission
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
DeCS ID: 5879
Unique ID: D005738
NLM Classification: WC 375
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2003/07/09
Gas Gangrene - Preferred
Concept UI M0008993
Scope note A severe condition resulting from bacteria invading healthy muscle from adjacent traumatized muscle or soft tissue. The infection originates in a wound contaminated with bacteria of the genus CLOSTRIDIUM. C. perfringens accounts for the majority of cases (over eighty percent), while C. noyvi, C. septicum, and C. histolyticum cause most of the other cases.
Preferred term Gas Gangrene
Entry term(s) Gangrene, Gas
Gangrenes, Gas
Gas Gangrenes



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