Yonago Acta medica 2008;51:11–15
Vacuum-Assisted Closure (VAC) for Bilateral Severe Ischemic Foot after Revascularization: A Patient Report
Kengo Nishimura, Yasushi Kanaoka, Shingo Harada, Munehiro Saiki, Akira Marumoto, Yoshinobu Nakamura and Motonobu Nishimura
Division of Organ Regeneration Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago 683-8504, Japan
The Vacuum-Assisted Closure (VAC) Therapy (KCI, San Antonio, TX) is a unique system that helps promote wound healing. We report a case of severe ischemic foot in which VAC therapy markedly improved wound healing. A 73-year-old man underwent left axillopopliteal bypass and left 3rd, 4th and 5th digital amputations for gangrene. Although his amputation stumps were complicated with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection, the stumps were successfully healed by VAC. He also had gangrene in his right 1st toe, which could not healed by VAC alone, and we performed right femoropopliteal bypass and right 1st digital amputation. The stump with MRSA infection was also successfully healed by VAC. Histopathologic examination revealed a lot of microvessels in the increased granulation tissue.
Key words: Alzheimer’s disease; concanavalin A; glycoprotein; glycosylation
