Bilateral Foot Skin Eruption in a Hepatitis C Patient

CASE PRESENTATION: A 58-year-old female with history of hepatitis C virus presented to the emergency department with a bilateral skin eruption to her feet for one year. Following skin biopsy, the patient was diagnosed with Necrolytic acral erythema (NAE). She was treated with clobetasol ointment, zi...

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Autores principales: Davis, Shane, Creditt, Angela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2020
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Images in Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7434275/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32926727
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2020.7.46490
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description CASE PRESENTATION: A 58-year-old female with history of hepatitis C virus presented to the emergency department with a bilateral skin eruption to her feet for one year. Following skin biopsy, the patient was diagnosed with Necrolytic acral erythema (NAE). She was treated with clobetasol ointment, zinc supplementation, and mupirocin, which resulted in improvement in her symptoms. DISCUSSION: NAE is a rash described as sharply demarcated, lichenified plaques on the dorsal foot and is a rare extra-hepatic manifestation of hepatitis C. This case details a patient with a skin eruption consistent with NAE.
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spelling pubmed-74342752020-08-20 Bilateral Foot Skin Eruption in a Hepatitis C Patient Davis, Shane Creditt, Angela Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Images in Emergency Medicine CASE PRESENTATION: A 58-year-old female with history of hepatitis C virus presented to the emergency department with a bilateral skin eruption to her feet for one year. Following skin biopsy, the patient was diagnosed with Necrolytic acral erythema (NAE). She was treated with clobetasol ointment, zinc supplementation, and mupirocin, which resulted in improvement in her symptoms. DISCUSSION: NAE is a rash described as sharply demarcated, lichenified plaques on the dorsal foot and is a rare extra-hepatic manifestation of hepatitis C. This case details a patient with a skin eruption consistent with NAE. University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2020-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7434275/ /pubmed/32926727 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2020.7.46490 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Peairs et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7434275/
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