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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Last update:April,24,1996