Escherichia coli Bacteremia-induced Purpura Fulminans: A Case Report

Purpura fulminans (PF) is a dermatologic manifestation of an underlying life-threatening condition associated with disseminated intravascular coagulation and skin necrosis. The known categories include protein C deficiency or abnormalities of other coagulation systems (inherited or acquired), acute...

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Autores principales: Ahmed, Mohamed, Samotowka, Michael, Habis, Saba, Mahmoud, Ahmed, Saeed, Rasha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6351005/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30723639
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3638
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author Ahmed, Mohamed
Samotowka, Michael
Habis, Saba
Mahmoud, Ahmed
Saeed, Rasha
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Samotowka, Michael
Habis, Saba
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Saeed, Rasha
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description Purpura fulminans (PF) is a dermatologic manifestation of an underlying life-threatening condition associated with disseminated intravascular coagulation and skin necrosis. The known categories include protein C deficiency or abnormalities of other coagulation systems (inherited or acquired), acute infectious PF and idiopathic. We describe a case of PF induced by Escherichia coli-associated bacteremia.
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spelling pubmed-63510052019-02-05 Escherichia coli Bacteremia-induced Purpura Fulminans: A Case Report Ahmed, Mohamed Samotowka, Michael Habis, Saba Mahmoud, Ahmed Saeed, Rasha Cureus Dermatology Purpura fulminans (PF) is a dermatologic manifestation of an underlying life-threatening condition associated with disseminated intravascular coagulation and skin necrosis. The known categories include protein C deficiency or abnormalities of other coagulation systems (inherited or acquired), acute infectious PF and idiopathic. We describe a case of PF induced by Escherichia coli-associated bacteremia. Cureus 2018-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6351005/ /pubmed/30723639 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3638 Text en Copyright © 2018, Ahmed et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Dermatology
Ahmed, Mohamed
Samotowka, Michael
Habis, Saba
Mahmoud, Ahmed
Saeed, Rasha
Escherichia coli Bacteremia-induced Purpura Fulminans: A Case Report
title Escherichia coli Bacteremia-induced Purpura Fulminans: A Case Report
title_full Escherichia coli Bacteremia-induced Purpura Fulminans: A Case Report
title_fullStr Escherichia coli Bacteremia-induced Purpura Fulminans: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Escherichia coli Bacteremia-induced Purpura Fulminans: A Case Report
title_short Escherichia coli Bacteremia-induced Purpura Fulminans: A Case Report
title_sort escherichia coli bacteremia-induced purpura fulminans: a case report
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6351005/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30723639
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3638
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