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Painless Livedoid Vasculopathy in a Patient with G20210A Prothrombin Gene Mutation

87 year old Caucasian female with chronic painless non-healing ulcers over malleoli was admitted to the hospital. On a physical examination, there were two bilateral and laterally located malleoli ulcers with no discharge. A thorough work up was done: lower extremities venous and arterial Doppler ul...

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Autores principales: Mirrakhimov, Aibek E., Velasquez Kho, Erwin, Ali, Alaa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3440924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22988463
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/910231
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description 87 year old Caucasian female with chronic painless non-healing ulcers over malleoli was admitted to the hospital. On a physical examination, there were two bilateral and laterally located malleoli ulcers with no discharge. A thorough work up was done: lower extremities venous and arterial Doppler ultrasound did not show any evidence of venous and arterial disease respectively. Heterozygous G20210A Prothrombin gene mutation was found, and the patient was started on anticoagulation. This case reports highlights a possibility of a painless livedoid vasculopathy presentation in a patient without significant past thrombotic events. Therefore, it is important to consider livedoid vasculopathy in the differential in a patient with painless ulcerative, atrophic and/or nodular skin lesions over the shins and malleoli.
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spelling pubmed-34409242012-09-17 Painless Livedoid Vasculopathy in a Patient with G20210A Prothrombin Gene Mutation Mirrakhimov, Aibek E. Velasquez Kho, Erwin Ali, Alaa Case Rep Med Case Report 87 year old Caucasian female with chronic painless non-healing ulcers over malleoli was admitted to the hospital. On a physical examination, there were two bilateral and laterally located malleoli ulcers with no discharge. A thorough work up was done: lower extremities venous and arterial Doppler ultrasound did not show any evidence of venous and arterial disease respectively. Heterozygous G20210A Prothrombin gene mutation was found, and the patient was started on anticoagulation. This case reports highlights a possibility of a painless livedoid vasculopathy presentation in a patient without significant past thrombotic events. Therefore, it is important to consider livedoid vasculopathy in the differential in a patient with painless ulcerative, atrophic and/or nodular skin lesions over the shins and malleoli. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3440924/ /pubmed/22988463 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/910231 Text en Copyright © 2012 Aibek E. Mirrakhimov 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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Painless Livedoid Vasculopathy in a Patient with G20210A Prothrombin Gene Mutation
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title_full Painless Livedoid Vasculopathy in a Patient with G20210A Prothrombin Gene Mutation
title_fullStr Painless Livedoid Vasculopathy in a Patient with G20210A Prothrombin Gene Mutation
title_full_unstemmed Painless Livedoid Vasculopathy in a Patient with G20210A Prothrombin Gene Mutation
title_short Painless Livedoid Vasculopathy in a Patient with G20210A Prothrombin Gene Mutation
title_sort painless livedoid vasculopathy in a patient with g20210a prothrombin gene mutation
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3440924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22988463
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/910231
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