A 58-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a 3-day history of painful, reddish skin lesions over her legs and high-grade fever. Her prior medical and surgical history was unremarkable. She denied a history of similar lesions, and she was not taking any medication prior to the onset of these lesions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus (SCLE) manifests with erythematous, nonscarring, annular, or papulosquamous plaques. Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are increasingly being incriminated in its causation, but reports of similar nature from India are lacking.
Aims: To describe the characteristics of seven patients with SCLE induced by PPIs and to review the published cases in order to provide a better perspective of the association.
The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has limited traditional consultation and minimized health care access. Teledermatology (TD) has come to the rescue in this situation by extending consultation for nonessential conditions to the comfort of patient's homes. This limits the risk of exposure of both doctors and patients to the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2).
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