DERMATOLOGIC EMERGENCIES
Rhett J. Drugge, MD
Medical Emergencies with diagnostic dermatologic findings
- Acute Hemorrhagic Fevers: Meningococcemia,
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Ebola, Acute
Septic Emboli, 2,
Necrotizing
Fasciitis, Periorbital
Cellulitis
- Erythrodermas: Cutaneous T Cell Lymphoma, Psoriasis, Atopic
Dermatitis, Drug Eruption, Seborrheic Dermatitis, Pityrisis Rubra
Pilaris, Streptococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome.
- Generalized Bullous Eruptions: Pemphigus (Vulgaris,
foliaceous, erythematosis), Pemphigoid (bullous,
cicatricial);
- Epidermal Necrotic Diseases: Kaposi's Varicelliform Eruption,
Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis, Johnson's Syndrome.
- Conditions inducing high output heart failure: Erythrodermas,
A-V malformations, angiomas (hemangiomas, blue rubber bleb
syndrome).
- Conditions associated with vasculopathies:
Klippel-Trenauney-Weber syndrome, Protein C and S deficiencies,
anticardiolipin syndrome, Acute myelomonocytic leukemia, lupus
erythematosis, rheumatoid arthritis, polyarteritis
nodosum
- Envenomations: Brown
Recluse Spider Bite, Rattlesnake
Bite , Management.
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