Cephalexin-Induced Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis

Although allergies to antibiotics are commonly stated, allergies to cephalosporin antibiotics are uncommonly reported. Furthermore, dermatologic and systemic reactions from cephalosporin exposure involving end-organ damage are rare. We present a case of cephalexin, a cephalosporin, induced hypersens...

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Autores principales: Tang, Wesley, Tan, Jennie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9347303/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35936130
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26545
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description Although allergies to antibiotics are commonly stated, allergies to cephalosporin antibiotics are uncommonly reported. Furthermore, dermatologic and systemic reactions from cephalosporin exposure involving end-organ damage are rare. We present a case of cephalexin, a cephalosporin, induced hypersensitivity vasculitis causing characteristic non-blanching purpuric lesions along with acute kidney failure necessitating hospitalization, corticosteroids, and initiation of hemodialysis.
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spelling pubmed-93473032022-08-04 Cephalexin-Induced Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis Tang, Wesley Tan, Jennie Cureus Internal Medicine Although allergies to antibiotics are commonly stated, allergies to cephalosporin antibiotics are uncommonly reported. Furthermore, dermatologic and systemic reactions from cephalosporin exposure involving end-organ damage are rare. We present a case of cephalexin, a cephalosporin, induced hypersensitivity vasculitis causing characteristic non-blanching purpuric lesions along with acute kidney failure necessitating hospitalization, corticosteroids, and initiation of hemodialysis. Cureus 2022-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9347303/ /pubmed/35936130 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26545 Text en Copyright © 2022, Tang 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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Tang, Wesley
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Cephalexin-Induced Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis
title Cephalexin-Induced Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis
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title_short Cephalexin-Induced Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis
title_sort cephalexin-induced leukocytoclastic vasculitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9347303/
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