Injecting drug use, the skin and vasculature

R Robertson, B Broers, M Harris - Addiction, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… Reports of injection-related injury show a range of problems and … leading to the use of sites
in areas other than the arm. … Acute arterial insufficiency can lead to tissue necrosis and, in …

Primary care for persons who inject drugs

AJ Visconti, J Sell, AD Greenblatt - American Family Physician, 2019 - aafp.org
… factors for complications of injection drug use. All PWID should be … complication associated
with injection drug use and more … drugs, and more than 750,000 currently use injection drugs. …

Infectious complications of injection drug use

LR Marks, NS Nolan, SY Liang, MJ Durkin… - Medical …, 2022 - medical.theclinics.com
… A systematic review of injecting-related injury and disease among people who inject …
Necrotizing fasciitis and toxic-shock syndromes may also occur and present with pain out of …

Severe bacterial infections in people who inject drugs: the role of injection-related tissue damage

A Hrycko, P Mateu-Gelabert, C Ciervo… - Harm Reduction …, 2022 - Springer
… been hospitalized for necrotizing fasciitis requiring emergent … and injection drug use networks
directly impacting drug use, … injury to the myocardial surface [40, 41]. Additionally, crack …

Factors associated with mortality and amputation caused by necrotizing soft tissue infections of the upper extremity: a retrospective cohort study

F Nawijn, SHWL Verhiel, KN Lunn, KR Eberlin… - World journal of …, 2020 - Springer
… the relatively large group of intravenous drug user and type II … NSTIs of the non-dominant
arm were more likely to undergo … an injection, most commonly done in the non-dominant arm, …

Skin and soft tissue infections in persons who inject drugs

HF Chambers - Infectious Disease Clinics, 2021 - id.theclinics.com
… infections are predicted by injection drug use: a prospective … and tissue injury and necrosis
that, when contaminated by … reflects the pattern of injection into multiple body sites, arms, legs, …

Isolated cerebral mucormycosis in immunocompetent adults who inject drugs: case reports and systematic review of the literature

EA Meyerowitz, S Sanchez, MK Mansour… - Open Forum …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… results in necrosis and thrombosis and is life-threatening [1]. … are associated with injection
drug use, making this a critical … of probable microhemorrhage within the lesion (Figure 1E), …

Immunodeficiency as a side effect of anabolic androgenic steroid abuse: A case of necrotizing myofasciitis

G Bertozzi, F Sessa, F Maglietta, L Cipolloni… - … Science, Medicine and …, 2019 - Springer
… in the site of any injury, such as surgical incision, skin … injection site: indeed, in all cases,
the anatomical regions affected by phlogistic signs were located on the arm affected by drug use

Substance addiction and the hand surgery patient: a comprehensive review

MR Zeiderman, CT Pereira - The Journal of Hand Surgery, 2021 - Elsevier
… The average flap area necrosis was 19.23% (SD, 9.1%) in untreated rats, … lesions in the
methamphetamine-using population. A Abscess and cellulitis following intravenous drug injection

Granulomatous cutaneous drug eruptions: a systematic review

N Shah, M Shah, AM Drucker, NH Shear, M Ziv… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
… -tumor necrosis factor therapy is the presumed cause. Interstitial granulomatous drug reactions
and … The lag period from an exposure of a drug to the development of lesions may vary …