Purpura is a medical condition where a person has purple-colored spots or blotches on the skin or on their mucus membranes. This lesson will explain why these blotches occur, where they might be found, and how
The treatment of neonatal purpura fulminans involves maintaining a platelet count > 50,000 109/L and fibrinogen levels > 1 g/L [1]. The cause determines the type of management to use. Intravenous antibiotics are essential if the condition is infection related [11]. Fresh-frozen ...
Proteinuria denotes severe renal injury, and proteinuria at the time of symptom onset was associated with poor prognosis [8, 21]. This is consistent with our study, where multiple proteinuria indicators of renal function were associated with crescent formation, based on our univariate analysis (Table...