What's the difference between gangrenous and necrotic?
Gangrenous
Definition:
(a.) Affected by, or produced by, gangrene; of the nature of gangrene.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clostridium septicum is a bacterial species associated with gas gangrene in both humans and animals.
(2) This paper details the first case report of a patient with fulminant, gangrenous, ischemic colitis caused by polyarteritis nodosa which was successfully treated surgically.
(3) Phenol chemical lumbar sympathectomy is an additional aid in the management of ischaemic rest pain and incipient gangrene.
(4) Most of the patients were delayed cases showing mild to severe degrees of trophic, sensory and motor disturbances in the limbs without gangrene.
(5) Fournier gangrene is a disease which primarily affects adults.
(6) Our experience indicates that the lower gastrointestinal tract should be considered as a possible cause of infection in all cases of synergistic gangrene of the scrotum and penis.
(7) CAA is now thought to play a key role in several multiple etiology disease syndromes; hemorrhagic syndrome; aplastic anemia, gangrenous dermatitis, hemorrhagic anemia syndrome, hemorrhagic aplastic anemia syndrome, anemia dermatitis and blue wing disease.
(8) Two of the three patients (both females) in whom clott migration occured in only one limb developed below-knee gangrene of the affected side.
(9) Patients with sigmoid volvulus with no clinical evidence of gangrene were selected for study, and all were given a trial of non-operative reduction by proctoscopy and passage of a rectal tube.
(10) Acute cholecystitis was found at operation in 33 patients (28%), empyema in nine (7.6%), gangrene of the gallbladder in three (2.5%), and 24 patients (20.3%) were found to have common bile duct stones.
(11) A 28-year-old man developed gangrene of a foot leading to a below-the-knee amputation.
(12) The prognosis was better in patients with gas gangrene after trauma than in patients with gas gangrene resulting from vascular insufficiency or malignant tumours.
(13) Three successfully managed cases of Fournier's gangrene, all with diabetes, are reported.
(14) In six of the ten patients, the presenting complaints were ascribable to incipient gangrene of the toes and several of these patients additionally developed occlusion of tibial and larger arteries while under our observation.
(15) Salient clinical findings in this case include DIC associated with extensive ecchymosis and subsequent gangrene of the skin, thrombotic complications that began on the third day of life.
(16) Lumbar sympathectomy appears to be most beneficial in the management of gangrene of the toe with a limb salvage rate of 75 per cent.
(17) A case is described with multiple gangrene of the fingers of a female, aged 55, with confirmed cirrhosis of liver and diabetes mellitus.
(18) The positive effect of the Defluina-medication on the initial--partly severe--varicose ulcera, with gangrenous alterations, has to be pointed out.
(19) Eleven patients had bacterial gangrene of the foot; two of these patients were less than 23 years of age, and five patients were not known to have had diabetes previously.
(20) Five year cumulative primary patency was 71% overall, 75% in patients with disabling claudication, 61% in those with rest pain and 46% in those with gangrene.
Necrotic
Definition:
(a.) Affected with necrosis; as, necrotic tissue; characterized by, or producing, necrosis; as, a necrotic process.
Example Sentences:
(1) The use of a major pancreatic resection for the surgical management of necrotizing pancreatitis should be excluded from treatment protocols.
(2) At 24 hours, an increased number of cells had become necrotic.
(3) The observations support the idea that the function of pericytes in the choriocapillaris, the major source of nutrition for the retinal photoreceptors, resides in their contractility, and that pericytes do not remove necrotic endothelium during capillary atrophy.
(4) Proven necrotizing enterocolitis was seen in eight infants and was suspected in eight others.
(5) Cooling of the necrotic limb with the application of a tourniquet and general nonoperative treatment were conducted in preparation for amputation.
(6) In the second patient the entire spinal cord was necrotic, clearly placing the second case outside the radiation myelopathy syndrome.
(7) The resolution of this encephalopathy suggests that early changes of subacute necrotizing leukoencephalopathy are reversible and CT is copable of detecting these early changes.
(8) An infectious etiology should be suspected in cases of necrotizing scleritis associated with a purulent discharge, and appropriate smears and cultures should be obtained.
(9) A simple technique that consists of curetting the subcutaneous tissue in the necrotic area of the lesion, to prevent the local destructive actions of the toxin, is described.
(10) Necrotic forms were treated by necrotectomy, whereas segmental pancreatectomy was performed in seven patients.
(11) Several stages in its histogenesis may be discerned: I. focal necroses of hepatic cells associated with their invasion with lister Listeria; 2. appearance of cellular elements around the foci of necroses with subsequent formation of granulemas consisting mainly of leucocytes and lymphoid cells; 3. development of necrobiotic changes in the central areas of granulemas with concomitance of exudative processes; 4. organization of necrotic foci with subsequent scarring.
(12) This vasodilatation limits the necrotic process and promotes the supply of drugs to the injured tissues.
(13) The necrotic, acellular papillary tip eventually separates.
(14) This study was undertaken in the rat to determine if muscle encased in collagen would subsequently become either necrotic or atrophic.
(15) One significant complication was recorded, post biopsy haemorrhage into a large, extensively necrotic renal adenocarcinoma causing severe pain.
(16) In the sediment of the wash-out fluid erythrocytes, degenerated and necrotic epithelial cell clusters were found.
(17) Lymphocytes surrounded necrotic tissue, and there was a follicular pattern of invasion.
(18) The morphology of the necrotic lesions, which were confined to the left lobe in 21 patients, was that of an anemic infarct.
(19) Experiments were designed to determine the rate and nature of postmortem autolysis in the gut of neonatal rats, as necessary baseline information for developing a model of human neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis.
(20) It is suggested that polyamines are released from necrotic neurons and cleared into the blood.