• Pediatric emergency care · Jun 2014

    Case Reports

    A rare presentation of seizures in a not-so-rare disease: henoch-schönlein purpura presenting with repeated seizures.

    • Christine Camacho, Christina Camacho, and Ernest G Leva.
    • From the *Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, †Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; ‡Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital, One Robert Wood Johnson Place, New Brunswick, NJ.
    • Pediatr Emerg Care. 2014 Jun 1; 30 (6): 424-6.

    AbstractHenoch-Schönlein purpura represents the most common form of systemic vasculitis in children. Although a very common cause of vasculitis, seizures are a very rare complication of this disorder. We report a 5-year-old boy who presents with no other clinical symptoms of the disorder other than a seizure. By presenting this case, we hope to expand the differential diagnosis of repeated seizures to include diseases in which the pathogenesis of diseases with small vessel vasculitis such as Henoch-Schönlein purpura is considered.

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