Life-Threatening Rashes An Illustrated, Practical Guide /

This book is a visually focused and clinically relevant volume detailing pearls and practical points regarding acute life-threatening rashes. Each chapter covers life-threatening causes of rash or their significant mimics, including Steven Johnson Syndrome, Kawasaki Disease, and HIV. The authors dis...

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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
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ISBN:9783319756233
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction/preface
  • The algorithmic approach to the unidentified rash
  • Anaphylaxis
  • Pemphigus Vulgaris
  • Steven Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis
  • Erythema Multiforme
  • Measles
  • Kawasaki Disease
  • Toxic Shock Syndrome
  • Scarlet Fever
  • Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome
  • Varicella
  • Omphalitis
  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus-associated rashes
  • Syphilis
  • Meningococcemia
  • Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and serious tick borne-illnesses (Lyme, erlichiosis, babeosis, tick paralysis)
  • Henoch Scholein Purpura
  • Necrotizing Infections
  • Erythroderma
  • Drug-Associated Hypersensitivity Syndrome (DHS)/Drug Rash with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms (DRESS) Syndrome
  • Ebola and hemorrhagic fever
  • Potential bioterrorism agents with mucocutaneous findings (anthrax, plague, tularemia, smallpox, ricin)
  • Other potentially life-threatening conditions with mucocutaneous findings (diphtheria, leptospirosis, murine typhus, typhoid fever, dengue.