1. Severe severe psychological repulsion reaction in patient with PAD resulted in natural lower extremity mummification
- Author
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Winckiewicz M, Brzezinski J, and Michał Stanisić
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,Patients ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Ischemia ,Arterial Occlusive Diseases ,Artificial Limbs ,Severity of Illness Index ,Lower limb ,Amputation, Surgical ,Gangrene ,Necrosis ,Peripheral arterial occlusive disease ,medicine ,Edema ,Humans ,In patient ,Aged ,Peripheral Vascular Diseases ,business.industry ,Vascular disease ,Angiography, Digital Subtraction ,Anticoagulants ,Critical limb ischemia ,Intermittent Claudication ,medicine.disease ,Mummification ,Surgery ,Treatment Outcome ,Amputation ,Lower Extremity ,Drug Therapy, Combination ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors ,Cognitive Dissonance - Abstract
This case report describes the very uncommon event of mummification of the lower limb occurring naturally in a patient with peripheral arterial occlusive disease aggravated by severe reactive aversion and serves as a warning that this can happen in cases of untreated advanced critical limb ischemia even in well developed countries.
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- 2009