Crusted Scabies Induced Hypereosinophilic Syndrome

Crusted scabies causes extensive hyperkeratotic skin lesions, crusting, and scaling and is common in elderly and institutionalized patients. We present a case of crusted scabies in a patient with encephalopathy and diffuse exfoliative erythroderma. After extensive workup, the patient’s condition was...

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Autores principales: Shrestha, Asis, Bischof, Edward
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8221644/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34178521
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15201
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description Crusted scabies causes extensive hyperkeratotic skin lesions, crusting, and scaling and is common in elderly and institutionalized patients. We present a case of crusted scabies in a patient with encephalopathy and diffuse exfoliative erythroderma. After extensive workup, the patient’s condition was attributed to hypereosinophilic syndrome due to crusted scabies. Skin condition, mental status, and eosinophilia improved with high-dose steroids in conjunction with topical permethrin and oral ivermectin.
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spelling pubmed-82216442021-06-25 Crusted Scabies Induced Hypereosinophilic Syndrome Shrestha, Asis Bischof, Edward Cureus Dermatology Crusted scabies causes extensive hyperkeratotic skin lesions, crusting, and scaling and is common in elderly and institutionalized patients. We present a case of crusted scabies in a patient with encephalopathy and diffuse exfoliative erythroderma. After extensive workup, the patient’s condition was attributed to hypereosinophilic syndrome due to crusted scabies. Skin condition, mental status, and eosinophilia improved with high-dose steroids in conjunction with topical permethrin and oral ivermectin. Cureus 2021-05-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8221644/ /pubmed/34178521 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15201 Text en Copyright © 2021, Shrestha et al. https://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.
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title_short Crusted Scabies Induced Hypereosinophilic Syndrome
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