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Despite aggressive debridement — daily surgical scrapings of her wounds to clean out the infection — and expensive medications, the tissues in her leg grayed at the edges.

The Bulls said Ball will undergo an arthroscopic debridement Wednesday in Los Angeles.

“Sometimes when you get debridement in the elbow, it just inflames,” Roberts said.

She said others “had been hastily patched up right after the earthquake but now required more further care, whether that is surgery or debridement of wounds.”

Whether patients live or die often depends on how quickly they undergo debridement surgery that removes the fungus and then start a two-week course of amphotericin B.