VizD Challenge Week of 10/22/2007
Name That Rash?
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1. Name that rash?
2. What is the most commonly recommended treatment?
A 39-year-old woman presents with a painful rash on her face that developed one-day after she recorded a body temperature of 102 degrees F.
3. Name that rash?
4. What is the most common etiologic organism?
A 24-year-old man presents to your ED with 2-days of low-grade fever, malaise and a rash that started on his chest and spread to his face and scalp.
5. Name that rash?
6. Name the etiologic agent that causes this rash?
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Week challenge 10/22/2007:
Name that Rash?
1. Shingles
2. Treatment with antiviral drugs.
3. Lupus
4. Systemic lupus erythematosus
5. Hepatitis
6. Hepatotropic viruses
That's my educated guess to the pictures.
#1 rash: herpes zoster virus bout
#2 rash: butterfly rash of SLE
#3 rash: starsky rash of VZV
zona zoster 2.acyclovir 3.erizipel 4 streptoccocus beta hemoliticus 5 varicelous exantem 6 vzz (human herpesvirus 3)
1. Zoster/Acyclovir or Gancyclovir
2. erysipelas/strep/staph
3. chicken pox/varicella
Greg
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