Pruritic cutaneous lesions on the chest

Autor: Inês Zão, Carla Matias
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Galician<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Galicia Clínica, Vol 80, Iss 3, Pp 65-65 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0304-4866
1989-3922
DOI: 10.22546/53/2020
Popis: We present the case of an 82 years old woman with history of Diabetes mellitus type 2 and arterial hypertension, chronically medicated with insulin glargine 20 units/day and amlodipine/ valsartan 5/160 mg per day. The patient was admitted to the emergency department due to dyspnea and chest pain with 1 day evolution, reporting also a 3-months history of asthenia and pruritic cutaneous lesions on the chest. On admission the patient was pale, polypneic and tachycardic with erythematous cutaneous lesions localized on the anterior and posterior thoracic region.
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