Hemorrhagic Lacrimation and Epistaxis in Acute Hemorrhagic Edema of Infancy

Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy is an uncommon benign cutaneous vasculitis. Despite its worrisome presentation, it carries good prognosis with rarely reported systemic involvement. Management of these cases has been an area of debate with majority of physicians adopting conservative modalities. W...

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Autores principales: Mreish, Shireen, Al-Tatari, Hossam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5124649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27965909
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9762185
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description Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy is an uncommon benign cutaneous vasculitis. Despite its worrisome presentation, it carries good prognosis with rarely reported systemic involvement. Management of these cases has been an area of debate with majority of physicians adopting conservative modalities. We report a case that presented with classic triad of rash, low grade fever, and peripheral edema along with two rarely reported manifestations in literature: hemorrhagic lacrimation and epistaxis.
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spelling pubmed-51246492016-12-13 Hemorrhagic Lacrimation and Epistaxis in Acute Hemorrhagic Edema of Infancy Mreish, Shireen Al-Tatari, Hossam Case Rep Pediatr Case Report Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy is an uncommon benign cutaneous vasculitis. Despite its worrisome presentation, it carries good prognosis with rarely reported systemic involvement. Management of these cases has been an area of debate with majority of physicians adopting conservative modalities. We report a case that presented with classic triad of rash, low grade fever, and peripheral edema along with two rarely reported manifestations in literature: hemorrhagic lacrimation and epistaxis. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-11-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5124649/ /pubmed/27965909 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9762185 Text en Copyright © 2016 S. Mreish and H. Al-Tatari. 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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Hemorrhagic Lacrimation and Epistaxis in Acute Hemorrhagic Edema of Infancy
title Hemorrhagic Lacrimation and Epistaxis in Acute Hemorrhagic Edema of Infancy
title_full Hemorrhagic Lacrimation and Epistaxis in Acute Hemorrhagic Edema of Infancy
title_fullStr Hemorrhagic Lacrimation and Epistaxis in Acute Hemorrhagic Edema of Infancy
title_full_unstemmed Hemorrhagic Lacrimation and Epistaxis in Acute Hemorrhagic Edema of Infancy
title_short Hemorrhagic Lacrimation and Epistaxis in Acute Hemorrhagic Edema of Infancy
title_sort hemorrhagic lacrimation and epistaxis in acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5124649/
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