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Recurrent Thrombotic Vasculopathy in a Former Cocaine User

We report a case of a 35-year-old female who presented to the emergency room (ER) complaining of a pruritic rash involving multiple areas of the body. She had a significant history of cocaine use in the past. She had first developed a similar rash in 2013 when she was diagnosed with cocaine-induced...

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Autores principales: Jadhav, Preeti, Tariq, Hassan, Niazi, Masooma, Franchin, Giovanni
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4697073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26793396
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/763613
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Tariq, Hassan
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Franchin, Giovanni
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description We report a case of a 35-year-old female who presented to the emergency room (ER) complaining of a pruritic rash involving multiple areas of the body. She had a significant history of cocaine use in the past. She had first developed a similar rash in 2013 when she was diagnosed with cocaine-induced vasculitis. Her urine toxicology had been positive for cocaine in the past until July 2013. She was incarcerated and attended a drug rehabilitation program after which she quit cocaine use, which was consistent with negative urine toxicology on subsequent admissions. Further workup did not reveal any other, autoimmune or infectious, etiology of this clinical presentation. The patient underwent biopsy of the skin lesion that was consistent with thrombotic vasculopathy likely secondary to levamisole.
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spelling pubmed-46970732016-01-20 Recurrent Thrombotic Vasculopathy in a Former Cocaine User Jadhav, Preeti Tariq, Hassan Niazi, Masooma Franchin, Giovanni Case Rep Dermatol Med Case Report We report a case of a 35-year-old female who presented to the emergency room (ER) complaining of a pruritic rash involving multiple areas of the body. She had a significant history of cocaine use in the past. She had first developed a similar rash in 2013 when she was diagnosed with cocaine-induced vasculitis. Her urine toxicology had been positive for cocaine in the past until July 2013. She was incarcerated and attended a drug rehabilitation program after which she quit cocaine use, which was consistent with negative urine toxicology on subsequent admissions. Further workup did not reveal any other, autoimmune or infectious, etiology of this clinical presentation. The patient underwent biopsy of the skin lesion that was consistent with thrombotic vasculopathy likely secondary to levamisole. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4697073/ /pubmed/26793396 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/763613 Text en Copyright © 2015 Preeti Jadhav et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26793396
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