Normocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis with laryngeal and intestinal tract edema

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...

Urticarial vasculitis: etiologies and clinical course.

Out of 64 patients diagnosed with urticarial vasculitis (UV), 49 (76.6%) presented with their first attack of UV. The others experienced recurrent attacks with a mean number of 3.3 past recurrences. Fifteen patients had angioedema (23.4%) and 16 (25%) suffered systemic involvement. The most common abnormal laboratory finding was an increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Six of 62 patients (9...