Henoch-Schönlein purpura history and symptoms

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Symptoms

• Skin- The skin lesions start as maculae progressing to papules and then to palpable purpura involving the symmetrical dependent areas such as buttocks, back, upper and lower limbs.
  • Other skin lesions include hives, angioedema, and target lesions.
• Gastrointestinal
  • Abdominal pain
  • Melena
  • Bloody diarrhea
  • Hematemesis
  • Duodenal ulcers
  • GI bleed
• Joints
  • Arthralgia is most common in the knees and ankles and rarely the interphalangeal joints and wrist.