Life-Threatening Rashes An Illustrated, Practical Guide /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Rose, Emily (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Emergency medicine.; Dermatology.; Infectious diseases.; Emergency Medicine.; Infectious Diseases.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.