INTRODUCTION The influenza virus infection may be severe in non-immune people. Common complications of influenza virus include upper and lower respiratory tract infections, otitis media, myocarditis, acute respiratory distress syndrome and multi-organ failure. There have been cases of vasculitis following influenza vaccination, and rash and acute purpura may occur in certain viral infections. T...

descriptive case report of a 42-year old woman with coetaneous vasculitis, and severe abdominal pain, which was led to diagnostic laparotomy. these presentations are probably as a side effect of methocarbamol injection. this is the first report according to our literature search (pubmed, google scholar, isi web of knowledge, proquest, md consult, science direct, scopus) about methocarbamol rela...

We present a case of an 18-month-old boy who showed severe clinical signs indicative of acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy (AHEI) with painful purpuric skin affection primarily of the face and marked edema of the ears. The histological findings were diagnostic for leukocytoclastic vasculitis and thus met the histological criteria for AHEI. Indicative of infection as causative agent for the cond...

Diffuse Subendocardial Vasculitis (DSV), either primary or secondary, may occur during autoimmune diseases and lead to high mortality and morbidity. Recently, Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR), a non-invasive, nonradiating technique, capable to perform tissue characterization has been used in the evaluation of cardiac vasculitis in the autoimmune diseases. CMR by performing tissue charact...

OBJECTIVE Our aim was to describe the epidemiologic, clinical, and laboratory characteristics of acute parvovirus B19 infection in adults. MATERIAL AND METHODS This study describes all cases of acute parvovirus B19 infection in patients older than 18 years of age who were treated at Hospital Universitario La Paz in Madrid, Spain, in 2012. RESULTS Forty-nine adults were treated for acute par...