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Session Information
FRM F157
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Petechial and Purpuric Skin Disease in Children: From Life-Threatening to Minor Nuisance
Subject:
Date:
Tuesday, March 05
CME Credits:
2.00
Location:
Room B114/B115
Time:
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Director:
Eulalia Baselga, MD - Handout
Speakers:
- Maria Cecilia Garzon, MD, FAAD
- Maria-Angela Hernandez-Martin, MD - Handout
Learning Objectives:
Following this course, the attendee should be able to:
- Recognize purpuric skin diseases that are severe and life-threatening in children
- Identify common purpuric diseases in children and discuss diagnostic tests, appropriate follow-up and treatment.
- Identify skin lesions that are “purple” in color but do not represent true purpura
Description:
The goal of this session is to review purpuric disease in newborns and older children, from those that need urgent evaluation and treatment because they are life-threatening to the more benign that may not need diagnostic tests or treatment. Topics to be covered include purpura fulminans, Schönlein-Henoch purpura, acute hemorrhagic edema, pigmented purpuric eruptions, purpuric viral exanthems and iatrogenic purpura. In this session we will also review other diseases that may mimic or look-alike purpura but do not represent extravasation of red blood cells such as diseases causing a blue-berry muffin appearance in the new-born.
Schedule:
| Tuesday, March 05 |
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| 3:30 PM | Introduction: General approach to purpura / Dr. Baselga |
| 3:40 PM | Severe purpuras / Dr. Hernandez-Martin |
| 4:10 PM | Common purpura and benign purpura in children / Dr. Garzon |
| 4:40 PM | Purpura-look Alikes / Dr. Baselga |