A Life Threatening Rash, an Unexpected Cause

We describe a 74-year-old man with purpura fulminans and altered sensorium following an acute febrile illness. Intensive sepsis management was to no avail, until institution of doxycycline therapy following confirmation of scrub typhus. Empirical doxycycline needs to be considered in endemic areas f...

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Autores principales: Jain, Dhiraj, Viswanathan, Stalin, Ramasamy, Chandramohan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4241284/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25431693
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/146251
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description We describe a 74-year-old man with purpura fulminans and altered sensorium following an acute febrile illness. Intensive sepsis management was to no avail, until institution of doxycycline therapy following confirmation of scrub typhus. Empirical doxycycline needs to be considered in endemic areas for patients presenting with purpura fulminans.
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spelling pubmed-42412842014-11-27 A Life Threatening Rash, an Unexpected Cause Jain, Dhiraj Viswanathan, Stalin Ramasamy, Chandramohan Case Rep Dermatol Med Case Report We describe a 74-year-old man with purpura fulminans and altered sensorium following an acute febrile illness. Intensive sepsis management was to no avail, until institution of doxycycline therapy following confirmation of scrub typhus. Empirical doxycycline needs to be considered in endemic areas for patients presenting with purpura fulminans. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4241284/ /pubmed/25431693 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/146251 Text en Copyright © 2014 Dhiraj Jain 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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