• Cutis · May 2008

    Case Reports

    Larva currens in a patient scheduled for renal transplant.

    • Virginia C Hall, Nasimul Ahsan, and James H Keeling.
    • Department of Dermatology Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
    • Cutis. 2008 May 1; 81 (5): 409-12.

    AbstractWe present a case of larva currens in a patient scheduled for renal transplant. Larva currens is an eruption caused by Strongyloides stercoralis, characterized most often by a pathognomonic, migratory, rapidly extending, serpiginous, urticarial eruption. Infected patients who are immunocompromised are at risk for disseminated and often fatal infection. In disseminated disease, diffuse petechiae and purpura may be present, and periumbilical ecchymoses may resemble thumbprints. The dermatologist may be in a unique position to diagnose this condition and institute therapy. Although found endemically in the United States, the increasingly international nature of medical practice and transplantation medicine causes an increase in the number of patients who may present for evaluation.

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