ALLMedicine™ Urticarial Vasculitis Center

Oct 13th, 2021 - Practice Essentials Urticaria is not a single disease but a reaction pattern that represents cutaneous mast cell degranulation, with the condition being defined as chronic if lesions recur for longer than 6 weeks. Mast cell degranulation results i...

Sep 16th, 2021 - Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a rare and serious complication of Sars-Cov-2 infection. Dermatologic manifestations are present in the majority of patients. Skin lesions found in children with MIS-C are classified into fo...

May 29th, 2021 - Urticaria (or hives) is a pruritic and erythematous skin rash. Angioedema commonly occurs with urticaria. The term "chronic urticaria" is used when hives are present for more than 6 weeks. Acute urticaria is common in children, whereas chronic urt...

May 12th, 2021 - Hypocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis syndrome (HUVS) is a rare autoimmune disorder characterised by recurrent urticarial lesions and acquired hypocomplementemia with systemic manifestations. The authors present the case of a 70-year-old man wh...

Feb 23rd, 2021 - Thromboinflammation is a still not well-understood phenomenon, which has recently come to the foreground as a function of its relevance in the pathophysiology of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The patient described in the present case report...

Mar 27th, 2018 - Cutaneous biopsy findings from urticaria lesions may be divided into the following categories, because the response to treatment may be different: Class 1: A mixture of perivascular dermal inflammatory infiltrates composed of lymphocytes, monocyte...

May 1st, 2015 - ASHEVILLE, N. C.

Feb 6th, 2013 - Hello. I am Jonathan Kay, Professor of Medicine and Director of Clinical Research in the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Center, both in Worcester, Massachusetts. Today I would ...

ABSTRACTNonsmokers with signs of emphysema at an earlier age than is typical for emphysema deserve a workup for one of the less common causes of emphysema, which include alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, connective tissue diseases, hypocomplementemi.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — Skin manifestations of Sjögren's syndrome may not be unique to the disease, but they require specific interventions and close monitoring, Darren L.