The acute necrotizing periorbital fasciitis. Clinical case

Abstract

BACKGROUND: A rare severe, characterized by high mortality in some localizations (up to 70%) necrotizing periorbital fasciitis has not been described previously in the national literature.
 AIM: to show a multidisciplinary approach to the treatment and rehabilitation of patients with periorbital necrotizing fasciitis on the example of the clinical case.
 CLINICAL CASE: Patient with the acute necrotizing fasciitis of both eyelids, with the dissemination to the superficial face and neck fascies, the sepsis development is given. Monitoring of vital functions, homeostasis indicators, repeated inoculations, computed tomography, regular examination by an ophthalmologist included the control of visual functions, anterior and posterior segments, closure of the eye fissure. Conservative and surgical treatment applied by a multidisciplinary team is presented, which allowed to save the patients life, overpass the purulent-necrotic, and then the rough scar process and to achieve satisfactory anatomical and functional results.
 CONCLUSION: Timely multidisciplinary treatment of periorbital necrotizing fasciitis is necessary for the life preservation, prevention of severe complications from the eye. With the threat of developing lagophthalmos, it is necessary to perform permanent blepharoraphy for 36 months after the first surgery and further surgical and pharmacological correction of scarring processes.