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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 .
Some typical places is the skin blood vessels around the buttocks and legs, which leads to significant skin discolouration that looks like blood is pooling under the skin surface - called purpura. One indication that the disease is Henoch-Schonlein is that the skin discoloration is palpable, as in you can feel it raise above the normal skin.
Schönlein described purpura rheumatica (Schönlein's disease) an allergic non-thrombopenic purpura rash that became known as Henoch–Schönlein purpura, though now known as IgA vasculitis. [3] [4] He also discovered the parasitic cause of ringworm or favus (Trichophyton schönleinii). [5]
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 ...
Schönlein, Schoenlein may refer to: . Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793, Bamberg – 1864), a German professor of medicine . Henoch–Schönlein purpura (HSP, German: Purpura Schönlein-Henoch, also known as "anaphylactoid purpura", "purpura rheumatica", and "Schönlein–Henoch purpura)
This is a shortened version of the fourth chapter of the ICD-9: Diseases of the Blood and Blood-forming Organs.It covers ICD codes 280 to 289.The full chapter can be found on pages 167 to 175 of Volume 1, which contains all (sub)categories of the ICD-9.
Immune complex glomerulonephritis, as seen in Henoch-Schönlein purpura; this is an example of IgA involvement in a nephropathy. The reaction can take hours, days, or even weeks to develop, depending on whether or not there is immunological memory of the precipitating antigen. Typically, clinical features emerge a week following initial antigen ...
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