Medical Image of the Week: Purpura Fulminans

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).

Jarrod Mosier, MD and John Bloom, MD

Emergency Medicine-Critical Care Program

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

Reference as: Mosier J, Bloom J. Medical image of the week: purpura fulminans. Southwest J Pulm Crit Care. 2013;6(6):305.  doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13175/swjpcc082-13 PDF