Purpura Fulminans Due to Acquired Protein C Deficiency

Purpura fulminans (PF) may be the presenting symptom in a patient with protein C (PC) deficiency. It is a hematological emergency and presents with extensive areas of hemorrhagic necrosis of the skin. PC deficiency is usually genetically inherited. However, we report a 1 year and 4 months boy, who p...

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Autores principales: Mukherjee, Devdeep, Pal, Priyankar, Kundu, Ritabrata
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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E-IJD Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4681232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26677306
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.169163
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description Purpura fulminans (PF) may be the presenting symptom in a patient with protein C (PC) deficiency. It is a hematological emergency and presents with extensive areas of hemorrhagic necrosis of the skin. PC deficiency is usually genetically inherited. However, we report a 1 year and 4 months boy, who presented with acquired PC deficiency possibly of postinfectious etiology and developed PF.
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spelling pubmed-46812322015-12-16 Purpura Fulminans Due to Acquired Protein C Deficiency Mukherjee, Devdeep Pal, Priyankar Kundu, Ritabrata Indian J Dermatol E-IJD Case Report Purpura fulminans (PF) may be the presenting symptom in a patient with protein C (PC) deficiency. It is a hematological emergency and presents with extensive areas of hemorrhagic necrosis of the skin. PC deficiency is usually genetically inherited. However, we report a 1 year and 4 months boy, who presented with acquired PC deficiency possibly of postinfectious etiology and developed PF. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4681232/ /pubmed/26677306 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.169163 Text en Copyright: © 2015 Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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