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Garden BC, Kramer ON, Aronson IK, Braniecki M. Lymphangioma-like Kaposi Sarcoma in Transplant-Associated Iatrogenic Immunosuppression: A Case Report. Transplant Proc 2016; 48:3134-3136. [PMID: 27932165 DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2016.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2016] [Accepted: 05/06/2016] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Lymphangioma-like Kaposi sarcoma (LLKS) is a rare histologic presentation of Kaposi sarcoma (KS), with only 28 cases reported in the literature. LLKS has been described in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and in endemic African-type as well as classic indolent KS. We present the 1st reported case of LLKS in a transplant-associated iatrogenic immunosuppressed patient.
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- B C Garden
- Department of Dermatology, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Aronson IK, Bond S, Fiedler VC, Vomvouras S, Gruber D, Ruiz C. Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy: clinical and immunopathologic observations in 57 patients. J Am Acad Dermatol 1998; 39:933-9. [PMID: 9843004 DOI: 10.1016/s0190-9622(98)70265-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy (PUPPP) has been described either as a homogeneous or a polymorphic clinical process. Its cause is unknown. OBJECTIVE We attempted to characterize the clinical and immunopathologic findings in PUPPP on the basis of long-term clinical and immunopathologic observations. METHODS The clinical and immunopathologic features of 57 patients with PUPPP were evaluated. RESULTS The clinical features in 57 patients with PUPPP were categorized into three types: mainly urticarial papules and plaques (type I), nonurticarial erythema, papules, or vesicles (type II), and combinations of the two forms (type III). Direct immunofluorescence studies in 48 of the 57 patients showed nonspecific immunoreactants in dermal blood vessels and/or moderate granular deposits at the dermoepidermal junction in 15 patients. CONCLUSION Type I PUPPP differed from types II and III in clinical appearance and distribution (absence of face, palm, and sole lesions), but trimester onset, parity, and direct immunofluorescence findings were not significantly different among the three groups.
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- I K Aronson
- Department of Dermatology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago 60612, USA
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- I K Aronson
- Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago
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Aronson IK, Rumsfield JA, West DP, Alexander J, Fischer JH, Paloucek FP. Evaluation of topical metronidazole gel in acne rosacea. Drug Intell Clin Pharm 1987; 21:346-51. [PMID: 2952478 DOI: 10.1177/106002808702100410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Topical metronidazole gel (0.75%) was compared to placebo gel in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, split-face clinical trial for the treatment of 59 patients with acne rosacea. Statistically significant differences in inflammatory lesions, erythema, and global assessments were seen at three, six, and nine weeks post-baseline in favor of the active treatment side. It did not, however, alter the telangiectatic component of the disease. No known drug-related side effects were detected, and the low topical dose along with low serum levels of metronidazole indicate a high safety profile for this therapeutic agent. This work suggests that metronidazole gel, as specifically formulated, is safe and effective in reducing the symptomatology of acne rosacea.
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Mupirocin is an investigational topical antibiotic used for treatment and prophylaxis of bacterial skin infections. Mupirocin differs from other antibiotics in its synthesis, structure, and mechanism of action. In vitro, mupirocin possesses antimicrobial activity against staphylococci, streptococci, Hemophilus influenzae, and Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Few studies comparing mupirocin to other topical antibiotics are available. Initial studies comparing mupirocin to inactive vehicle in the treatment of impetigo indicate an overall 92 percent pathogen eradication rate with active drug and 58 percent eradication rate with vehicle. Overall response to treatment of secondary skin infections was favorable in 91 percent of patients treated with mupirocin and 77 percent of those treated with vehicle. Although incidence is not greater than placebo, adverse effects have included pruritus, burning, dry skin, and erythema. Additional trials and clinical use should further help determine the role of mupirocin in the treatment of minor, primary, and secondary skin infections.
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The Weber-Christian syndrome (relapsing nodular panniculitis) displays a clinical spectrum varying from short, self-limited, or intermittent disease episodes to persistent disease with fatal outcome. Inflamed adipose tissue is exclusively subcutaneous in some patients and is both subcutaneous and perivisceral in others. Inflammation of fat may induce a focal cutaneous or a systemic extracutaneous histiocytic proliferative response in which hemophagocytosis may be a frequent characteristic. Major causes of death--sepsis, hepatic failure, hemorrhage, and thrombosis--are identical in the patients with and without the systemic histiocytic proliferation. Inflammation in fat, of and by itself, may be associated with significant morbidity and mortality, regardless of specific histopathology or inciting factors.
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Aronson IK, West DP, Variakojis D, Ronan SG, Iossifides I, Zeitz HJ. Panniculitis associated with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and cytophagocytic histiocytosis. Br J Dermatol 1985; 112:87-96. [PMID: 3871626 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1985.tb02296.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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A 36-year-old woman had a 6-year history of recurrent panniculitis with development of an angiocentric and angiodestructive cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) of the helper cell phenotype. She subsequently developed a rapidly progressive fatal syndrome characterized by cytophagocytic histiocytosis and hyperlipidaemia. Cytophagocytic histiocytosis has previously been reported in association with panniculitis, malignancy and infection, but not with CTCL and the precise relationship between panniculitis, CTCL, cytophagocytic histiocytosis and hyperlipidemia is unclear.
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Aronson IK, Yu R, West DP, Van den Broek H, Antel J. Thalidomide-induced peripheral neuropathy. Effect of serum factor on nerve cultures. Arch Dermatol 1984; 120:1466-70. [PMID: 6093713 DOI: 10.1001/archderm.120.11.1466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Sensory neuropathies developed in three of four patients with prurigo nodularis who had been treated with thalidomide. The serum samples of the patients who had neuropathy produced morphologic changes in cultured dorsal root ganglion cells. These observed changes support the postulate that thalidomide induces primary neuronal degeneration.
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A patient with mediastinal histoplasmosis, alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, and panniculitis is presented. The patient showed dramatic response to treatment with ketoconazole. The associations of panniculitis with histoplasmosis and alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency are discussed.
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A patient with moderately extensive psoriasis developed acute gouty arthritis while receiving topical corticosteroid and tar therapy. The serum uric acid levels were normal before, during, and after the acute gouty episode. Patients predisposed to gout by virtue of an appropriate associated condition should be evaluated for gout even in the presence of normal serum uric acid.
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Aronson IK, Soltani K, Brickman F. Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction in complement-depleted rabbits. Histological and immunofluorescence studies of early cutaneous lesions. Br J Vener Dis 1981; 57:226-31. [PMID: 7023600 PMCID: PMC1045929 DOI: 10.1136/sti.57.4.226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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The possible role of complement in the pathogenesis of the Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction was assessed in cutaneous syphilitic lesions in two groups of rabbits treated with penicillin; in one group complement was depleted before penicillin therapy. Serial biopsy specimens were similar histologically in both groups. The activation of the complement pathways did not seem to play a role in the pathogenesis of early cutaneous syphilitic lesions in rabbits during the Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction.
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A patient with late onset chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis developed lymphocytic lymphoma. A specific inhibitor of in vitro lymphoproliferative responses to candidal antigen was detected in her serum which persisted following clinical remission of candidiasis after combined amphotericin-B and 5-Fluorocystosine therapy. It is unclear whether the combined therapy was exclusively anticandidal, nonspecific immunostimulant or cytotoxic affecting the underlying incipient lymphoma.
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Aronson AJ, Soltani K, Aronson IK, Ong RT. Systemic lupus erythematosus and dermatitis herpetiformis: concurrence with Marfan's syndrome. Arch Dermatol 1979; 115:68-70. [PMID: 760661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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There is increasing evidence that, as in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), deposition of immune complexes plays a role in the pathogenesis of dermatitis herpetiformis (DH). Dermatitis herpetiformis and SLE were diagnosed in a 15-year-old girl with Marfan's syndrome who died of cardiac tamponade secondary to cystic medial necrosis of the ascending aorta. The concurrence of these diseases suggests that predisposition to immune-mediated disorders may be associated with the expression of multiple clinical entities.
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Soltani K, Aronson IK, Brickman F, Lorincz AL. Detection by direct immunofluorescence of antibodies to Treponema pallidum in the cutaneous infiltrates of rabbit syphilomas. J Infect Dis 1978; 138:222-6. [PMID: 355581 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/138.2.222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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By direct immunofluorescence, with use of fluorescein-labeled sonified Treponema pallidum, specific antibodies were detected in the tissue infiltrates of cutaneous syphilomas in rabbits. Specimens from cutaneous and mucosal inflammatory lesions induced by intradermal injection of a keratinous substance from an epidermal cyst served as controls. Granular fluorescence was detected in the dermis of 11 of the 12 syphiloma specimens and corresponded to areas of heavy plasma cell infiltrates, and some fluorescence was found directly on plasma cells identified by subsequent staining with hematoxylin and eosin. This fluorescence could be blocked by preabsorption. Control slides did not show any fluorescence. Immunopathologic techniques using labeled antigens may be of diagnostic value in syphilis and other infectious disorders which feature specific infiltrates.
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Aronson IK, Soltani K, Paik KI, Rubenstein D, Lorincz AL. Triad of lichen planus, myasthenia gravis, and thymoma. Arch Dermatol 1978; 114:255-8. [PMID: 629553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Myasthenia gravis in a woman was followed by the development of severe erosive lichen planus and thymoma. Lichen planus is not ordinarily associated with other cutaneous or systemic disorders. The reported immunologic findings in some patients with lichen planus and especially the occasional association of lichen planus with certain disorders linked with immunologic disturbances suggest an autoimmune pathogenesis for this disorder.
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