Experience with negative-pressure wound therapy (NPWT) in gram-negative sepsis following Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

In a 45-year-old male patient with acute myeloid leukemia allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant was performed one year earlier. In this occasion he has been admitted urgently for a severe soft tissue infection. The patient is a carrier of multiple pathogens and in turn is immunosuppressed which thus together predisposing to a septic state.

László Bor
Dept. of Surgery, St. István and St. László Hospital , Budapest, Hungary

Ágnes Radványi
Dept. of Haematology and Stem Cell Transplantation, St. István and St. László Hospital , Budapest, Hungary