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Hepatitis B Virus

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associated with:

•Giannoti-Crosti syndrome
•PAN
•serum sickness syndrome

 

other than Giannoti-Crosti syndrome, the dermatologic features of HBV infection are mostly believed to be associated with immune complex formation:

 

Serum Sickness Syndrome

•occurs in 20 to 30% of cases
•usually a prodrome 1 to 6 weeks before onset of clinical hepatitis
•clinically: urticaria and angioedema common,  petechiae or EM-like lesions in others,  arthralgias or arthritis and headache common
•histology = vasculitis

 

POLYARTERITIS NODOSA

•detect HbsAg ~ 10 to 50% of patients with PAN
•immune complex mechanism for Hep B associated PAN

 

 

 

hepatitis B,C,D – urticarial lesions

hepatitis A,E associated with exanthems