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What may underlie recurrent purpura fulminans?
Author(s) -
Kennedy Karina J,
Walker Sarah,
Pavli Paul,
Hallam Lavinia,
Hemmings Chris
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb00944.x
Subject(s) - medicine , clinical microbiology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
A woman presenting with recurrent purpura fulminans was eventually found to have inflammatory bowel disease. We suggest the inflammatory state resulted in a deficiency of functional protein C.