[Microwave-induced heating injury].
The case reported herein involves burns at the lower extremities leading to amputation followed by an MRSA infection with subsequent myocardial infarction and death in a patient with diabetes on chronic ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. The burns were produced by the use of a warm-up pillow containing natural stones (grape seeds) heated by microwaves. This represents another of the strange potential hazards of serious microwave related injuries.
Frey
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Klinik und Poliklinik für Nephrologie und Hypertonie, Inselspital, Bern. felix.frey@insel.ch
D000368:Aged; D000671:Amputation, Surgical; D000672:Amputation Stumps / Q000098:blood supply / Q000473:pathology; D002056:Burns / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D003925:Diabetic Angiopathies / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D003929:Diabetic Neuropathies / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003972:Diathermy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D018409:Foot Injuries / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016106:Methicillin Resistance; D008872:Microwaves / Q000009:adverse effects*; D012086:Reoperation; D012772:Shock, Septic / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*