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Simple scoring system for prediction of mortality in Fournier’s gangrene

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Abstract

Purpose

To create new scoring system for prediction of hospital mortality for patients with Fournier’s gangrene(FG).

Material and method

In total, 84 patients with FG were enrolled into this study. The demographic and clinical characteristics of patients were analyzed retrospectively.

Results

The mortality rate was 11.9 %. On multivariate analyses, age >60 years, BUN >40 mg/dl, RDW >14.95 %, albumin level <20 mg/dl and presence of sepsis were significant and independent predictors of mortality. The predictive value of our score for mortality was 95.1 %.

Conclusion

Our scoring system shows adequate discriminatory function for prediction of mortality in patients with FG. Further larger scale studies can improve the performance of our score.

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Ahmet Erdoğan, İhsan Aydoğan, Kazım Şenol, Enes Malik Üçkan, Şiyar Ersöz and Mesut Tez declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Erdoğan, A., Aydoğan, İ., Şenol, K. et al. Simple scoring system for prediction of mortality in Fournier’s gangrene. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg 42, 513–518 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00068-015-0572-2

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