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Purpura Fulminans Following Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis-Like Presentation of Spontaneous Linear IgA Bullous Disease

Purpura fulminans (PF) is a life-threatening disease of cutaneous microvascular thrombosis and hemorrhagic necrosis. Linear IgA bullous disease (LABD) is an autoimmune disease of subepidermal blistering. We present the first known case of PF following a toxic epidermal necrolysis-like presentation o...

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Autores principales: Tassavor, Michael, Tassavor, Bryan, Al Awadhi, Ameen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7920214/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33659124
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12989
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author Tassavor, Michael
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description Purpura fulminans (PF) is a life-threatening disease of cutaneous microvascular thrombosis and hemorrhagic necrosis. Linear IgA bullous disease (LABD) is an autoimmune disease of subepidermal blistering. We present the first known case of PF following a toxic epidermal necrolysis-like presentation of spontaneous LABD in a 70-year-old female.
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spelling pubmed-79202142021-03-02 Purpura Fulminans Following Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis-Like Presentation of Spontaneous Linear IgA Bullous Disease Tassavor, Michael Tassavor, Bryan Al Awadhi, Ameen Cureus Dermatology Purpura fulminans (PF) is a life-threatening disease of cutaneous microvascular thrombosis and hemorrhagic necrosis. Linear IgA bullous disease (LABD) is an autoimmune disease of subepidermal blistering. We present the first known case of PF following a toxic epidermal necrolysis-like presentation of spontaneous LABD in a 70-year-old female. Cureus 2021-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7920214/ /pubmed/33659124 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12989 Text en Copyright © 2021, Tassavor 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
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Purpura Fulminans Following Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis-Like Presentation of Spontaneous Linear IgA Bullous Disease
title Purpura Fulminans Following Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis-Like Presentation of Spontaneous Linear IgA Bullous Disease
title_full Purpura Fulminans Following Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis-Like Presentation of Spontaneous Linear IgA Bullous Disease
title_fullStr Purpura Fulminans Following Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis-Like Presentation of Spontaneous Linear IgA Bullous Disease
title_full_unstemmed Purpura Fulminans Following Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis-Like Presentation of Spontaneous Linear IgA Bullous Disease
title_short Purpura Fulminans Following Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis-Like Presentation of Spontaneous Linear IgA Bullous Disease
title_sort purpura fulminans following toxic epidermal necrolysis-like presentation of spontaneous linear iga bullous disease
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7920214/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33659124
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12989
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