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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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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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author | Jadhav, Preeti Tariq, Hassan Niazi, Masooma 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. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Jadhav, Preeti Tariq, Hassan Niazi, Masooma Franchin, Giovanni Recurrent Thrombotic Vasculopathy in a Former Cocaine User |
title | Recurrent Thrombotic Vasculopathy in a Former Cocaine User |
title_full | Recurrent Thrombotic Vasculopathy in a Former Cocaine User |
title_fullStr | Recurrent Thrombotic Vasculopathy in a Former Cocaine User |
title_full_unstemmed | Recurrent Thrombotic Vasculopathy in a Former Cocaine User |
title_short | Recurrent Thrombotic Vasculopathy in a Former Cocaine User |
title_sort | recurrent thrombotic vasculopathy in a former cocaine user |
topic | Case Report |
url | 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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