Refractory vasculitic ulcer of the toe in adolescent suffering from Systemic Lupus Erythematosus treated successfully with hyperbaric oxygen therapy

Skin ulcers are a dangerous and uncommon complication of vasculitis. We describe the case of a teenager suffering from Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with digital ulcer resistant to conventional therapy, treated successfully with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. The application of hyperbaric oxygen, which i...

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Autores principales: Olivieri, Alma N, Mellos, Antonio, Duilio, Carlo, Di Meglio, Milena, Mauro, Angela, Perrone, Laura
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2988807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21040521
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-36-72
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author Olivieri, Alma N
Mellos, Antonio
Duilio, Carlo
Di Meglio, Milena
Mauro, Angela
Perrone, Laura
author_facet Olivieri, Alma N
Mellos, Antonio
Duilio, Carlo
Di Meglio, Milena
Mauro, Angela
Perrone, Laura
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description Skin ulcers are a dangerous and uncommon complication of vasculitis. We describe the case of a teenager suffering from Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with digital ulcer resistant to conventional therapy, treated successfully with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. The application of hyperbaric oxygen, which is used for the treatment of ischemic ulcers, is an effective and safe therapeutic option in patients with ischemic vasculitic ulcers in combination with immunosuppressive drugs. Further studies are needed to evaluate its role as primary therapy for this group of patients.
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spelling pubmed-29888072010-11-20 Refractory vasculitic ulcer of the toe in adolescent suffering from Systemic Lupus Erythematosus treated successfully with hyperbaric oxygen therapy Olivieri, Alma N Mellos, Antonio Duilio, Carlo Di Meglio, Milena Mauro, Angela Perrone, Laura Ital J Pediatr Case Report Skin ulcers are a dangerous and uncommon complication of vasculitis. We describe the case of a teenager suffering from Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with digital ulcer resistant to conventional therapy, treated successfully with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. The application of hyperbaric oxygen, which is used for the treatment of ischemic ulcers, is an effective and safe therapeutic option in patients with ischemic vasculitic ulcers in combination with immunosuppressive drugs. Further studies are needed to evaluate its role as primary therapy for this group of patients. BioMed Central 2010-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC2988807/ /pubmed/21040521 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-36-72 Text en Copyright ©2010 Olivieri et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Olivieri, Alma N
Mellos, Antonio
Duilio, Carlo
Di Meglio, Milena
Mauro, Angela
Perrone, Laura
Refractory vasculitic ulcer of the toe in adolescent suffering from Systemic Lupus Erythematosus treated successfully with hyperbaric oxygen therapy
title Refractory vasculitic ulcer of the toe in adolescent suffering from Systemic Lupus Erythematosus treated successfully with hyperbaric oxygen therapy
title_full Refractory vasculitic ulcer of the toe in adolescent suffering from Systemic Lupus Erythematosus treated successfully with hyperbaric oxygen therapy
title_fullStr Refractory vasculitic ulcer of the toe in adolescent suffering from Systemic Lupus Erythematosus treated successfully with hyperbaric oxygen therapy
title_full_unstemmed Refractory vasculitic ulcer of the toe in adolescent suffering from Systemic Lupus Erythematosus treated successfully with hyperbaric oxygen therapy
title_short Refractory vasculitic ulcer of the toe in adolescent suffering from Systemic Lupus Erythematosus treated successfully with hyperbaric oxygen therapy
title_sort refractory vasculitic ulcer of the toe in adolescent suffering from systemic lupus erythematosus treated successfully with hyperbaric oxygen therapy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2988807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21040521
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-36-72
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