Infectious Urticaria with Purpura: A Mild Subtype of Urticarial Vasculitis?

Evaluation of D-dimer serum levels among patients with chronic urticaria, psoriasis and urticarial vasculitis*

BACKGROUND It has been demonstrated that neutrophils, eosinophils and monocytes, under appropriated stimulus, may express tissue factor and therefore, activate the extrinsic pathway of coagulation. We performed a transversal and case-control study of patients with chronic urticaria and patients with psoriasis, in our outpatient clinic to evaluate the production of D-dimer. OBJECTIVE To evalua...

Urticarial vasculitis and Schnitzler syndrome.

Both urticarial vasculitis and Schnitzler syndrome are serious diseases but a recently gained better understanding of their underlying pathomechanism allows better treatment options than only a decade ago.

Urticarial vasculitis associated with essential thrombocythaemia.

© 2014 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-1653 Journal Compilation © 2014 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Urticarial vasculitis is a form of leucocytoclastic vasculitis whereby the skin lesions resemble urticaria. It is associated with systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjögren’s syndrome, hepatitis B and C viruses (1). Rarely it is associated with an underlying haematological disorders a...

Urticarial vasculitis induced by fluoxetine.

Urticarial Vasculitis in Northern Spain

Urticarial vasculitis (UV) is a subset of cutaneous vasculitis (CV), characterized clinically by urticarial skin lesions of more than 24 hours’ duration and histologically by leukocytoclastic vasculitis. We assessed the frequency, clinical features, treatment, and outcome of a series of patients with UV. We conducted a retrospective study of patients with UV included in a large series of unsele...