gangrene research
1. What is the disease?
• Gangrene is a term that describes dead or dying body tissue(s) that occur because the local blood supply to the tissue is either lost or is inadequate to keep the tissue alive. Gangrene refers to dead or dying body tissue(s) that occur because of inadequate blood supply.
• There are two major types of gangrene, wet gangrene and dry gangrene. http://www.onhealth.com/gangrene/article.htm Gangrene is the destruction of tissue in your body. It develops when the blood supply to an affected body part is cut off because of various factors such as infection, vascular disease, or trauma. http://chealth.canoe.ca/channel_condition_info_details.asp?channel_id=143&relation_id=1711&disease_id=160&page_no=1 2. What ways does the disease enter the body—means of infection?
Dry gangrene can result from conditions that reduce or block arterial blood flow such as diabetes, arteriosclerosis, and tobacco addiction as well as from trauma, frostbite, or injury. Wet gangrene can result from these causes as well but always includes infection. In some cases of wet gangrene, the initial cause is considered to be the infection.
Many cases of dry gangrene are not infected. All cases of wet gangrene are considered to be infected, almost always by bacteria. The most common sites for both wet and dry gangrene to occur are the digits (fingers and toes) and other extremities (hands, arms, feet, and legs). http://www.onhealth.com/gangrene/article.htm Gangrene can involve any body part, but the most commonly affected areas are the extremities (feet, arms, legs, hands). http://chealth.canoe.ca/channel_condition_info_details.asp?channel_id=143&relation_id=1711&disease_id=160&page_no=1 3. How contagious is it?
Wet (also sometimes termed "moist") gangrene is the most dangerous type of gangrene because if it is left untreated, the patient usually develops sepsis and dies within a few hours or days. Wet gangrene results from an untreated (or inadequately treated)
• Gangrene is a term that describes dead or dying body tissue(s) that occur because the local blood supply to the tissue is either lost or is inadequate to keep the tissue alive. Gangrene refers to dead or dying body tissue(s) that occur because of inadequate blood supply.
• There are two major types of gangrene, wet gangrene and dry gangrene. http://www.onhealth.com/gangrene/article.htm Gangrene is the destruction of tissue in your body. It develops when the blood supply to an affected body part is cut off because of various factors such as infection, vascular disease, or trauma. http://chealth.canoe.ca/channel_condition_info_details.asp?channel_id=143&relation_id=1711&disease_id=160&page_no=1 2. What ways does the disease enter the body—means of infection?
Dry gangrene can result from conditions that reduce or block arterial blood flow such as diabetes, arteriosclerosis, and tobacco addiction as well as from trauma, frostbite, or injury. Wet gangrene can result from these causes as well but always includes infection. In some cases of wet gangrene, the initial cause is considered to be the infection.
Many cases of dry gangrene are not infected. All cases of wet gangrene are considered to be infected, almost always by bacteria. The most common sites for both wet and dry gangrene to occur are the digits (fingers and toes) and other extremities (hands, arms, feet, and legs). http://www.onhealth.com/gangrene/article.htm Gangrene can involve any body part, but the most commonly affected areas are the extremities (feet, arms, legs, hands). http://chealth.canoe.ca/channel_condition_info_details.asp?channel_id=143&relation_id=1711&disease_id=160&page_no=1 3. How contagious is it?
Wet (also sometimes termed "moist") gangrene is the most dangerous type of gangrene because if it is left untreated, the patient usually develops sepsis and dies within a few hours or days. Wet gangrene results from an untreated (or inadequately treated)