Purpura Fulminans: a Rare but Fierce Presentation of Pneumococcal Sepsis

Infectious purpura fulminans (PF) is a rare presentation of disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC) due to diffuse intravascular thrombosis and haemorrhagic infarction of the skin. PF can present in infancy/childhood or adulthood and usually presents as ecchymotic skin lesions, fever and hypot...

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Autores principales: Nasrullah, Adeel, Javed, Anam, Tariq, Usman, Young, Meilin, Moeen, Zunera, Balaan, Marvin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SMC Media Srl 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6993916/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32015972
http://dx.doi.org/10.12890/2019_001373

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6993916/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32015972
http://dx.doi.org/10.12890/2019_001373

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