Acute Limb Ischemia Caused by Inadvertent Arterial Drug Self-Injection: A Case Report

Mary Elizabeth Maldarelli; Edward Conan Traver; Gregory Norcross; Donald Gann; Sarah Kattakuzhy; Christopher Welsh; Sarah Ann Schmalzle

doi:10.12659/AJCR.932903

15 August 2021 : Case report USA

Acute Limb Ischemia Caused by Inadvertent Arterial Drug Self-Injection: A Case Report

Unusual clinical course, Challenging differential diagnosis, Diagnostic / therapeutic accidents

Mary Elizabeth Maldarelli^1AEF, Edward Conan Traver

^2AEF, Gregory Norcross^1AEF, Donald Gann^3A, Sarah Kattakuzhy^4AE, Christopher Welsh^3AE, Sarah Ann Schmalzle^45AE*

DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.932903

Am J Case Rep 2021; 22:e932903

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Figure 2. Left foot on hospital day 10. Despite treatment for SSTI, the patient’s foot developed progressive discoloration and pain by hospital day 10. (A) Dorsal left foot. (B) Plantar left foot.

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