Senile Purpura

Purpura Simplex

Immune thrombocytopenic purpura ITP

HenochSchnlein Purpura HSP

Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura ITP

Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)

Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes, treatment of this bleeding disorder.

Same signaling enzymes can trigger two different processes in the cell

Stroke, heart attacks and numerous other common disorders result in a massive destruction of cells and tissues called necrosis. It's a violent event: As each cell dies, its membrane ruptures, releasin...

Two Different Processes In The Cell Sound A Warning To Biomedical Researchers

Stroke, heart attacks and numerous other common disorders result in a massive destruction of cells and tissues called necrosis. It's a violent event: As each cell dies, its membrane ruptures, releasin...

Researchers unravel dual role of tumor necrosis factor in TB

Tumor necrosis factor - normally an infection-fighting substance produced by the body- can actually heighten susceptibility to tuberculosis if its levels are too high.

New study may help develop targeted therapies for controlling tissue destruction

Stroke, heart attacks and numerous other common disorders result in a massive destruction of cells and tissues called necrosis. It's a violent event: As each cell dies, its membrane ruptures, releasin...

Avastin Reduces Brain Necrosis from Radiation (CME/CE)

BOSTON (MedPage Today) -- Patients who have radiation treatment following surgery for brain cancer may have less radiation-induced tissue necrosis if they are also treated with bevacizumab (Avastin),...

Clinical outcomes, when matched at presentation, do not vary between adult-onset Henöch-Schönlein purpura nephritis and IgA nephropathy

Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP)–Like Illness Associated With Intravenous Opana ER Abuse—Tennessee, 2012

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Purpura, cutaneous necrosis, and antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies associated with levamisole-adulterated cocaine.

To describe the clinical and serologic abnormalities in 6 patients who presented with retiform purpura and extensive cutaneous necrosis after exposure to levamisole-adulterated cocaine.

NEONATAL PURPURA FULMINANS SECONDARY TO GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION.

Purpura fulminans is an acute and frequently fatal disorder characterized by sudden onset of progressive cutaneous hemorrhage and necrosis due to dermal vascular thrombosis and disseminated intravascu...

Neonatal Purpura Fulminans Due to Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

  Neonatal purpura fulminans is rare and may be inherited or acquired. It may ultimately lead to multiorgan failure and death. Purpura fulminans in a premature neonate resulting from Staphylococcus...

Scrotal involvement in an adult with Henoch-Schönlein purpura.

Henoch-Schönlein purpura is a systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology usually affecting the pediatric age group and characterized by the clinical triad of non-thrombocytopenic palpable purpura, abdom...

Bullous Henoch-Schonlein Purpura in Children: A Report of 6 Cases and Review of the Literature.

Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) is the most common vasculitis occurring in childhood. Clinical presentation involves the classic tetrad of abdominal pain, nonthrombocytopenic purpura, arthritis, and r...