Cutaneous Vasculitis in a Patient With COVID-19

Katrin Kösters; Sitha Schwarzer; Achim Labuhn; Albert Rübben; Sara Yang; Frank Hessler; Chalid Assaf

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofaa474

Cutaneous Vasculitis in a Patient With COVID-19

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 Oct 5;7(10):ofaa474. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa474. eCollection 2020 Oct.

Authors

Katrin Kösters¹, Sitha Schwarzer¹, Achim Labuhn², Albert Rübben³, Sara Yang⁴, Frank Hessler⁴, Chalid Assaf⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine II, Helios Klinikum Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany.
² Department of Internal Medicine I, Helios Klinikum Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany.
³ Department of Dermatology and Venerology, University Hospital of the RWTH-Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
⁴ Department of Dermatology and Venerology, Helios Klinikum Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany.

Abstract

We describe a 43-year-old patient with coronavirus disease 2019 who developed a bullous hemorrhagic rash that progressed to necrotic lesions. Histopathology confirmed a vasculitis of small- and medium-sized cutaneous vessels.

Keywords: COVID-19; vasculitis.