Open AccessLivedoid vasculopathy associated with sickle cell trait: significant improvement on aspirin treatment
Author(s) -
El Khoury Jinane,
Taher Ali,
Kurban Mazen,
Kibbi AbdulGhani,
Abbas Ossama
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international wound journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.867
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1742-481X
pISSN - 1742-4801
DOI - 10.1111/j.1742-481x.2011.00882.x
Subject(s) - medicine , aspirin , sickle cell trait , dermatology , disease
Livedoid vasculopathy (LV) is a chronic, recurrent, painful cutaneous disease manifesting as longstanding distal lower extremity ulcers that scar leaving stellate atrophic lesions known as ‘atrophie blanche’. A significant number of cases have been associated with thrombophilic abnormalities. In this study, we describe, to the best of our knowledge, the first report of LV only associated with sickle cell trait with significant improvement on aspirin.