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Alcohol Abuse as a Silent Risk Factor for Purpura Fulminans and the Importance of Pneumococcal Vaccination. [PDF]

Cureus, 2023
Purpura fulminans (PF) is a rare presentation of disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC) and a life-threatening complication of septic shock.
Perry JC, Pindek RL, Sur A, Kc N, Zeibeq J.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Purpura Fulminansın Nedeni Lamotrijin mi?: Olgu Sunumu

Sakarya Tıp Dergisi, 2021
Purpura fulminans çoğunlukla enfeksiyonlara sekonder ortaya çıkan ve mortalitenin yüksek olduğu bir sendromdur. Yaygın damar içi pıhtılaşmayla doku ve organ nekrozuna neden olabilmektedir.
Büşra Solak, Revza Tosunoğlu, Fatma Şimşek   +2 more
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Purpura Fulminans as a Rare Manifestation of Invasive Haemophilus influenzae Disease: A Case Report. [PDF]

Cureus
Haemophilus influenzae (Hi) is a bacterium usually found in the upper respiratory tract of humans. Though it is recognized as a naturally occurring element in the human bacterial reservoir, Hi infections have the potential to be severe and even fatal ...
Oliveira Miranda D, Bourbon Ruão M, Magalhães J, Pereira NM, Gonçalves C.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Pneumococcal purpura fulminans in asplenic or hyposplenic patients: a French multicenter exposed-unexposed retrospective cohort study

Critical Care, 2020
Background Pneumococcal infections remain the main cause of overwhelming post-splenectomy infections, and purpura fulminans may develop in almost 20% of patients with overwhelming post-splenectomy infection.
Damien Contou, Rémi Coudroy, Gwenhaël Colin, Jean-Marc Tadié, Martin Cour, Romain Sonneville, Armand Mekontso Dessap, Nicolas de Prost, for the HOPEFUL Study Group   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cutaneous manifestations of thrombophilia [PDF]

, 2008
O escopo deste artigo é revisar os estados de hipercoagulabilidade sangüínea (trombofilias) mais provavelmente encontrados por dermatologista. Seus sinais cutâneos incluem o livedo reticular, necrose cutânea, ulcerações e isquemia digital, púrpura ...
CRIADO, Paulo Ricardo, MARTINS, Jose Eduardo Costa, RIVITTI, Evandro A., VALENTE, Neusa Y. S., VASCONCELLOS, Cidia   +4 more
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Uncommon Location of Purpura Fulminans: Case Report and Literature Review

Case Reports in Dermatology, 2020
Purpura fulminans is a critical, mostly fatal, thrombotic syndrome that requires urgent intervention. Purpura fulminans is an acute purpuric rash characterized by coagulation of the microvasculature, which leads to purpuric lesions and skin necrosis.
Sahar Hasan Alsharif, Abdullah Al-Omair, Fedaa Andijani   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fulminant sepsis post splenectomy. Report of a case and review of the literature [PDF]

, 2020
Se presenta el caso de un paciente varón de 37 años de edad quien fue admitido en emergencia por presentar lesiones purpúricas generalizadas y antecedente de haber sido esplenectomizado 20 años atrás.
Butrón-Valencia, Karina, Novoa-Millones, Luis   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

Venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation treatment for acute respiratory distress syndrome and non-occlusive mesenteric ischemia due to Pasteurella multocida-related sepsis with purpura fulminans: a case report

International Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2023
Background Pasteurella multocida -related sepsis can cause purpura fulminans (PF), a rare thrombotic disorder that often presents acutely and is potentially fatal.
Aya Fukuhara, Seiko Fushimi, M. Nakata, Jumpei Takamatsu   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Streptococcus pyogenes-purpura fulminans as an invasive form of group A streptococcal infection

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials, 2018
Background Streptococcus pyogenes is an uncommon pathogen of purpura fulminans, and the pathogenesis of S. pyogenes-purpura fulminans remains unclear because of paucity of cases. We reported a pediatric case of S.
Sayaka Okuzono, Masataka Ishimura, Shunsuke Kanno, Motoshi Sonoda, Noriyuki Kaku, Yoshitomo Motomura, Hisanori Nishio, Utako Oba, Masuo Hanada, Jun-ichi Fukushi, Michiyo Urata, Dongchon Kang, Hidetoshi Takada, Shouichi Ohga   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Critical bloodstream infection caused by Chromobacterium violaceum: a case report in a 15-year-old male with sepsis-induced cardiogenic shock and purpura fulminans. [PDF]

Front Med (Lausanne)
Chromobacterium violaceum (C. violaceum) is a gram-negative bacillus that is widespread in tropical and subtropical areas. Although C. violaceum rarely infects humans, it can cause critical illness with a mortality rate above 50%.
Wang X, Tu Y, Chen Y, Yang H, Luo M, Li Y, Huang L, Luo H.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources