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purpura

[′pər·pyə·rə]

(medicine)

Spontaneous hemorrhages into tissues such as joints, skin, and mucosal surfaces.

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However, manifestation of ISF as primary purpura fulminans has been described only rarely.

Two Cases of Israeli Spotted Fever with Purpura Fulminans, Sharon District, Israel

Varicella purpura fulminans associated with heterozygosity for factor V Leiden and transient protein C deficiency.

Over the subsequent hospital days, the patient went into disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC) and progressed to purpura fulminans (PF).

Meningococcemia Masquerading as a Nonspecific Flu-Like Syndrome

Purpura fulminans: recognition, diagnosis andmanagement.

Bruises on the ears and body: could this patient's worsening bruises be explained by her history of drug use?

Purpura fulminans is the cutaneous clinical presentation of a hematological complication that includes tissue necrosis, small vessel thrombosis, and disseminated intravascular coagulation (1-2).

Mutilating purpura fulminans in an adult with meningococcal sepsis

Schwed-Lustgarten, "Pneumococcal sepsis-induced purpura fulminans in an asplenic adult patient without disseminated intravascular coagulation," American Journal of the Medical Sciences, vol.

Invasive Pneumococcal Disease: Still Lots to Learn and a Need for Standardized Data Collection Instruments

Herein, we describe an infant who presented with delayed onset purpura fulminans and was found to have autosomal recessive PCD caused by a novel homozygous PROC mutation.

Protein C Deficiency Caused by a Novel Mutation in the PROC Gene in an Infant with Delayed Onset Purpura Fulminans

Just 72 hours later the tot was diagnosed with a rare thrombotic disorder called Purpura Fulminans and had to have both of his legs amputated.

Businessman funds trip for tot

By the combination of cellular and biochemical approaches we expect to dissect these mechanisms and elicit bacterial determinants used to colonize and proliferate in human blood vessels and host molecular mechanisms that participates in causing vascular damage and purpura fulminans in response to bacterial infection.

HUVASC-SEQ: Functional Genomics Analysis of Neisseria meningitidis interactions with human dermal blood vessels in vivo

Purpura fulminans (PF) is a life-threatening hematologic emergency in which there is skin necrosis and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC).

Purpura fulminans secondary to rickettsia in a child: a case report

(14) Clinically, both patients manifested features of purpura fulminans, as occurs in catastrophic APS, and presented at autopsy with signs of disseminated intravascular coagulation, but aCL or LA were not tested.

Lucio Leprosy with Lucio's phenomenon, digital gangrene and anticardiolipin antibodies

pneumoniae causes fever and purpura fulminans mainly in children who are immunocompromised.