Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy after MMR vaccine

Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy (AHEI) is a rare type of leuckocytoclastic vasculitis. It affects mainly children less than two years of age. Many precipitating factors have been reported, including infectious etiology and vaccination. We are reporting a two-year-old boy with AHEI after measles,...

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Autor principal: Binamer, Yousef
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6074456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26409801
http://dx.doi.org/10.5144/0256-4947.2015.254
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description Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy (AHEI) is a rare type of leuckocytoclastic vasculitis. It affects mainly children less than two years of age. Many precipitating factors have been reported, including infectious etiology and vaccination. We are reporting a two-year-old boy with AHEI after measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. To our knowledge this is the second reported case after an MMR vaccine.
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spelling pubmed-60744562018-09-21 Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy after MMR vaccine Binamer, Yousef Ann Saudi Med Case Report Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy (AHEI) is a rare type of leuckocytoclastic vasculitis. It affects mainly children less than two years of age. Many precipitating factors have been reported, including infectious etiology and vaccination. We are reporting a two-year-old boy with AHEI after measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. To our knowledge this is the second reported case after an MMR vaccine. King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC6074456/ /pubmed/26409801 http://dx.doi.org/10.5144/0256-4947.2015.254 Text en Copyright © 2015, Annals of Saudi Medicine This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) .
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title_short Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy after MMR vaccine
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6074456/
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