Medical image of the week: purpura fulminans

Abstract

Figure 1: Purpura fulminans, a cutaneous manifestation of disseminated intravascular coagulation, due to Group A streptococcal septic shock (A), which improved with antibiotics, resuscitation, IVIG infusion, and topical nitroglycerin (B).

Keywords

• purpura fulminans
• sepsis
• disseminated intravascular coagulation