Henoch-Schönlein purpura fulminant
Keywords:
purpura, Schoenlein-Henoch, purpura fulminansAbstract
A female patient of 51 years old with personal pathological precedent of bronchial asthma, hypertension and ulcerative colitis and infection by chikungunya virus for a month. She incomes with dark pasty diarrhea with mucus and blood, she evolved unfavorably with flaccid paraplegia and recticularis livedo, which became extensive purple; then phlyctena and generalized edema. She remained hypotensive with electrolyte imbalance and impairment of consciousness, complementaries were performed, she was transfused and underwent to hemodialysis; she evolved to coma and death. The pathological findings showed an adult, fulminant and deadly form of anaphylactoid purpura or Henoch-Schönlein. Mesangial proliferation with fushinofílicos mesangial deposits werefound corresponding to immunoglobulin A with immunofluorescence, leukocytoclastic vasculitis and necrotizing vasculitis of small vessels. Purple of Schönlein-Henoch is a peculiar form of vasculitis that tends to spontaneous healing and occasionally may have a fatal course or proceed to a chronic nephritis.Downloads
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