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In [[medicine]], '''Henoch-Schonlein purpura''' is [[vasculitis]] and [[immune complex disease]] that is "systemic non-thrombocytopenic purpura caused by [[hypersensitivity vasculitis]] and deposition of IGA-containing [[immune complexe]]s within the blood vessels throughout the body, including those in the kidney ([[kidney glomerulus]]). Clinical symptoms include [[urticaria]]; [[erythema]]; [[arthritis]]; [[gastrointestinal hemorrhage]]; and renal involvement. Most cases are seen in children after acute upper respiratory infections."<ref>{{MeSH}}</ref>
In [[medicine]], '''Henoch-Schonlein purpura''' is [[vasculitis]] and [[immune complex disease]] that is "systemic non-thrombocytopenic purpura caused by [[hypersensitivity vasculitis]] and deposition of IGA-containing [[immune complexe]]s within the blood vessels throughout the body, including those in the kidney ([[kidney glomerulus]]). Clinical symptoms include [[urticaria]]; [[erythema]]; [[arthritis]]; [[gastrointestinal hemorrhage]]; and renal involvement. Most cases are seen in children after acute upper respiratory infections."<ref>{{MeSH}}</ref>


Henoch-Schonlein purpura may be associated with bacteremia from staphylococcus aureus.<ref name="pmid16807418">{{cite journal| author=Denton MD, Digumarthy SR, Chua S, Colvin RB| title=Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 20-2006. An 84-year-old man with staphylococcal bacteremia and renal failure. | journal=N Engl J Med | year= 2006 | volume= 354 | issue= 26 | pages= 2803-13 | pmid=16807418  
Henoch-Schonlein purpura may be associated with bacteremia from staphylococcus aureus.<ref name="pmid16807418">{{cite journal| author=Denton MD, Digumarthy SR, Chua S, Colvin RB| title=Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 20-2006. An 84-year-old man with staphylococcal bacteremia and renal failure. | journal=N Engl J Med | year= 2006 | volume= 354 | issue= 26 | pages= 2803-13 | pmid=16807418  
| url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=clinical.uthscsa.edu/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=16807418 | doi=10.1056/NEJMcpc069012 }} </ref>
| url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=clinical.uthscsa.edu/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=16807418 | doi=10.1056/NEJMcpc069012 }} </ref>
Henoch-Schonlein purpura was the diagnosis on the episode Open and Shut of House.<ref>(2010) [http://www.hulu.com/watch/143447/house-open-and-shut Open and Shut]</ref>


==Treatment==
==Treatment==

Revision as of 17:58, 13 May 2010

In medicine, Henoch-Schonlein purpura is vasculitis and immune complex disease that is "systemic non-thrombocytopenic purpura caused by hypersensitivity vasculitis and deposition of IGA-containing immune complexes within the blood vessels throughout the body, including those in the kidney (kidney glomerulus). Clinical symptoms include urticaria; erythema; arthritis; gastrointestinal hemorrhage; and renal involvement. Most cases are seen in children after acute upper respiratory infections."[1]

Henoch-Schonlein purpura may be associated with bacteremia from staphylococcus aureus.[2]

Henoch-Schonlein purpura was the diagnosis on the episode Open and Shut of House.[3]

Treatment

Short terms corticosteroids may help renal disease.[4]

References