Erythromelalgia: An Uncommon Presentation Precipitated by Aspirin Withdrawal

Erythromelalgia is a rare disorder frequently associated with myeloproliferative disorders. We describe a case of elderly patient diagnosed with myeloproliferative disorder in remission. The patient was on aspirin for secondary prevention of stroke and was taken off aspirin and developed erythromela...

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Autores principales: Khalid, Fatima, Hassan, Syed, Qureshi, Sophia, Qureshi, Waqas, Amer, Syed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3403327/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22844295
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/616125
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author Khalid, Fatima
Hassan, Syed
Qureshi, Sophia
Qureshi, Waqas
Amer, Syed
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description Erythromelalgia is a rare disorder frequently associated with myeloproliferative disorders. We describe a case of elderly patient diagnosed with myeloproliferative disorder in remission. The patient was on aspirin for secondary prevention of stroke and was taken off aspirin and developed erythromelalgia within two weeks of withdrawal of aspirin. After restarting aspirin, patient's symptoms improved within 2 weeks.
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spelling pubmed-34033272012-07-27 Erythromelalgia: An Uncommon Presentation Precipitated by Aspirin Withdrawal Khalid, Fatima Hassan, Syed Qureshi, Sophia Qureshi, Waqas Amer, Syed Case Rep Med Case Report Erythromelalgia is a rare disorder frequently associated with myeloproliferative disorders. We describe a case of elderly patient diagnosed with myeloproliferative disorder in remission. The patient was on aspirin for secondary prevention of stroke and was taken off aspirin and developed erythromelalgia within two weeks of withdrawal of aspirin. After restarting aspirin, patient's symptoms improved within 2 weeks. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3403327/ /pubmed/22844295 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/616125 Text en Copyright © 2012 Fatima Khalid et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Erythromelalgia: An Uncommon Presentation Precipitated by Aspirin Withdrawal
title_full Erythromelalgia: An Uncommon Presentation Precipitated by Aspirin Withdrawal
title_fullStr Erythromelalgia: An Uncommon Presentation Precipitated by Aspirin Withdrawal
title_full_unstemmed Erythromelalgia: An Uncommon Presentation Precipitated by Aspirin Withdrawal
title_short Erythromelalgia: An Uncommon Presentation Precipitated by Aspirin Withdrawal
title_sort erythromelalgia: an uncommon presentation precipitated by aspirin withdrawal
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3403327/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22844295
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/616125
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