OBESITY AND DIABETES, RISK FACTORS FOR POTENTIALLY LETHAL SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS - CASE REPORT

Fournier gangrene is an acute, fulminating infection that has severe general manifestations and it is a medical-surgical emergency. It has a very high mortality (10-65%) and high risk of disability if not treated promptly and effectively. We present a patient of 47 years old known with obesity and gout and without other diseases, who presented to the emergency room with fever and chills and vivid pain that grew rapidly in intensity at a suddenly appeared perineal tumor. Based on clinical and laboratory data we decided emergency surgery. Postoperatively, the patient's evolution was slowly favorable.