Purpura

Purpura is an abnormal flow of blood to the skin or mucous membranes: they are dotted with small red spots or bright blue, which with the age become brownish or yellowish. It should not be confused with a bruise (which is a brand of dark blue, purple and greenish or yellowish skin color, usually secondary to trauma, and due to infiltration of blood in the lesion). Purpura is defined by a top spot of 3 mm and a 2 mm petechiae. Secondly, and importantly, they differ in that they are separated into 2 groups, as they are not infiltrated or infiltrated.

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Purpura treatment

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Sometimes it is necessary to perform plasmapheresis. Plasmapheresis is a technique used to collect plasma (liquid content in the blood) in a blood donor or in a patient.
Formerly prescribed bed rest is no longer valid today.
For most young adults and children, spontaneous recovery means a few weeks or months.
Use of steroids (cortisone) to fight against joint and abdominal pain.
Dialysis may be necessary to treat kidney failure.

Purpura causes

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Purpura causes are due to a problem of permeability of all small vessels resulting in an autoimmune response (the individual makes antibodies against its own tissue) called vasculitis leucocytoplasique. It is a diffuse inflammation of small vessels characterized by the deposition of a particular variety of antibodies (immunoglobulin A) within the vessel walls and in cases of renal complications in the kidney.

Rheumatoid purpura

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Rheumatoid purpura or Henoch-Schonlein purpura is a systemic vasculitis characterized by inflammation of blood vessels, particularly of the skin where you can see small red spots (purpura) during relapses. It evolves by successive crops, usually for 2 to 3 weeks just before disappearing completely, but sometimes it becomes chronic, with iterative relapses for several months or years.

Rheumatoid purpura causes

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It is not known the exact cause of this disease. Rheumatoid purpura is not contagious, although one often finds a history of angina, sinusitis or bronchitis in the days or weeks before the attacks.

Rheumatoid purpura - People at risk

Rheumatoid purpura usually affects children, especially those aged under 5 years. The disease varies somewhat depending on the age, including kidney damage. It is more frequent and severe in older children and adults.

Purpura symptoms

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Purpura symptoms may occur in repeated waves over several days to weeks. They may involve a breach of the skin (purpura rash), joint swelling and knee and ankle pain. The gastrointestinal damage is very frequent, with abdominal pain, nausea and sometimes bleeding. Renal disease is possible in 30-70% of patients (excessive protein and / or blood in urine or renal failure).

Purpura diagnosis

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The diagnosis of rheumatoid purpura is relatively simple. A skin and / or kidney biopsy, where a renal disease, may help confirm the diagnosis.

Purpura rash

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The petechiae are small reddish-purple skin patches, caused by seepage of blood under the skin. More specifically, this bleeding represents extravasation of red cells in the dermis (output of red blood vessels to the skin) and will not clear the vitropression. The vitropression, which involves applying a piece of glass on a lesion of the skin, helps to distinguish between two types of skin lesions. Thus, an erythematous localized lesion (red or red-purple in connection with vasodilation of blood vessels) fades to vitropression, unlike purpura.

Purpura pictures

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Purpura fulminans

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Purpura fulminans is actually a syndrome, most common in children than in adults. It is observed:

During severe bacterial infections.
The waning of a common infection.
In the neonatal period due to a congenital protein.

The fulminans purpura is defined as the combination of fever, purpuric vascular lesions, shock, signs of DIC, and death was reported as up to 70 to 90% of cases(currently, according to the etiology and timeliness of care, it can be reduced to 10%).