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  2. Henoch–Schönlein purpura - Wikipedia

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    IgA vasculitis (HSP), previously known as Henoch–Schönlein purpura, is a disease of the skin, mucous membranes, and sometimes other organs that most commonly affects children. In the skin, the disease causes palpable purpura (small, raised areas of bleeding underneath the skin), often with joint pain and abdominal pain .

  3. Cryofibrinogenemia - Wikipedia

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    Cryofibrinogenemia refers to a condition classified as a fibrinogen disorder in which a person's blood plasma is allowed to cool substantially (i.e. from its normal temperature of 37 °C to the near-freezing temperature of 4 °C), causing the (reversible) precipitation of a complex containing fibrinogen, fibrin, fibronectin, and, occasionally, small amounts of fibrin split products, albumin ...

  4. Systemic vasculitis - Wikipedia

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    Immunoglobulin A (IgA) vasculitis, formerly referred to as Henoch–Schönlein purpura, is a type of immune complex vasculitis that primarily affects IgA deposits in small vessels. Acute enteritis, glomerulonephritis, arthralgias and/or arthritis, and cutaneous purpura are the most common clinical manifestations. Children are more likely than ...

  5. What Is Priapism & How Can Men Treat It? - AOL

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    Henoch-Schonlein purpura (small blood vessel inflammation) Priapism commonly occurs in men with sickle cell disease, and the risk increases with age.

  6. Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy - Wikipedia

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    Henoch-Schönlein purpura [1] Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy ( AHEI ) is a type of leukocytoclastic vasculitis that is not fatal. Although it causes fever, large palpable purpuric skin lesions, and edema , it is a harmless condition.

  7. Measles cases have been reported in 19 states this year. What ...

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    Henoch-Schönlein purpura (abdominal and joint pain associated with a purple rash that looks like bruises, often on the legs and buttocks) Kawasaki disease (fever, red eyes, red cracked lips ...

  8. List of ICD-9 codes 280–289: diseases of the blood and blood ...

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    287 Purpura and other hemorrhagic conditions. 287.0 Allergic purpura Henoch–Schönlein purpura; 287.3 Thrombocytopenia, primary 287.31 Immune thrombocytopenic purpura.

  9. Nonthrombocytopenic purpura - Wikipedia

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    Nonthrombocytopenic purpura is a type of purpura (red or purple skin discoloration) not associated with thrombocytopenia. [1] Nonthrombocytopenic purpura has been reported after smoking mentholated cigarettes. [2] Examples/causes include: Henoch–Schönlein purpura [3] Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia [4] Congenital cytomegalovirus [1 ...