BACKGROUND Urticarial Vasculitis (UV) is in most of the cases idiopathic; however it has been associated with several conditions and drugs. Over the counter (OTC) diet pills are widely available, even on-line, but they are rarely regulated by pharmaceutical control. CASE PRESENTATION We present the case of a 35-year-old female patient suffering of pruriginous and painful wheals more than 1 cm...

Schnitzler syndrome is a rare auto-inflammatory disorder characterized by urticarial skin rash, a monoclonal IgM component and at least two of the following findings: periodic fever, arthralgias or arthritis, bone pain, palpable lymph nodes, liver or spleen enlargement, elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate, leukocytosis, and abnormal findings on bone morphologic investigations. We present th...

Background Progesterone induced dermatitis is a rare autoimmune response to endogenous progesterone that usually occurs in fertile females, in the third decade. Skin lesions occur periodically during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle due to increase of progesterone, the symptom usually occurs 3-10 days prior to the onset of menstrual flow and resolve 2 days into menses. It may present a v...

Anti-p200 pemphigoid, also called anti-laminin-γ1 pemphigoid, is a recently defined entity. First reported in 1996, the incidence is relatively rare, with approximately 70 reports in the literature. Clinical presentation is heterogeneous, but the disease most commonly mimics bullous pemphigoid with urticarial papules, plaques, or tense bullae on the trunk or extremities. Described here is a cas...

Introduction Mast cells, key effector cells of allergic and innate immune responses, have recently been reported to be an important source of IL-1ß in patients with autoinflammatory conditions such as cryopyrin-associated-periodic-fever syndromes (CAPS). CAPS patients show IL-1beta-driven systemic inflammation together with non-histamine dependent urticarial rash, which are caused by activating...

© 2010 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-0858 Journal Compilation © 2010 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Many dermatoses exhibit lesions distributed in a linear fashion: the linearity may be related to anatomical structures (blood or lymph vessels, or nerves), to mechanical factors (urticarial dermographism, striae distensae cutis, or frictional melanosis) or to some other provocati...

Hormonal alterations contribute to the physiologic skin changes in pregnancy, which include hyperpigmentation and melasma, striae gravidarum and vascular phenomena, such as spiders, palmar erythema and varicosities. Hair, nails and sweat glands may also be affected. Dermatoses associated with pregnancy include herpes gestationis, impetigo herpetiformis, pruritic urticarial papules and plaques o...