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Purpura fulminans secondary to respiratory infection
Author(s) -
Jakob Antje,
Alexandrakis Elias,
Rompel Rainer
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
jddg: journal der deutschen dermatologischen gesellschaft
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.463
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1610-0387
pISSN - 1610-0379
DOI - 10.1111/j.1610-0387.2008.06871.x
Subject(s) - purpura fulminans , medicine , disseminated intravascular coagulation , coagulopathy , purpura (gastropod) , shock (circulatory) , mortality rate , dermatology , surgery , ecology , biology
Summary Purpura fulminans features the sudden onset of large rapidly‐spreading areas of hemorrhagic skin necrosis. This is followed by a disseminated intravascular coagulopathy with consecutive consumption of anticoagulant factors. Patients with severe disease in whom therapy is delayed often develop shock with a poor prognosis.The mortality rate is about 30–40%. An elderly women developed purpura fulminans after a respiratory infection. Prompt diagnosis before shock symptoms had started was instrumental in producing a favorable clinical course.