Management of urticarial vasculitis: A worldwide physician perspective

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 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...

Urticarial Vasculitis in a Teenage Girl

This case involves a 13-year-old female who presented to the pediatrician for a routine check-up with complaints of a long history of intermittent diarrhea followed by a severe rash lasting for up to a week afterwards. The mother had described her daughter's condition to multiple physicians, several whom had seen her during flare-ups. The nonmigratory lesions resembled "hives" with a single les...

468 Urticarial Vasculitis After Bee-sting Therapy

468 Urticarial Vasculitis After Bee-sting Therapy June-Hyuk Lee, Sung Woo Park, An-Soo Jang, DoJin Kim, and ChoonSik Park. Respiratory and allergy, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, Bucheon, South Korea; Division of Respiratory and Allergy Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, College of Medicine, Bucheon, South Korea. Background: Bee-sting therapy is one of the oriental traditi...