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Carlos Perez, MD; Marta Montes, MD

Arch Intern Med. 2002;162:352-354.

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INTRODUCTION

Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection is generally associated with respiratory symptoms. Abnormalities in almost every organ system have been described as examples of extrapulmonary manifestations.¹ However, skin vasculitis is very rare: we found reports of only 2 cases of serologically confirmed M pneumoniae infection with cutaneous biopsy-proven vasculitis in the English-language literature.^2-3 On the other hand, M pneumoniae causes central nervous system complications such as aseptic meningitis, meningoencephalitis, transverse myelitis, brainstem dysfunction, and Guillain-Barré syndrome, as well as many other symptoms.^{1, 4} Three mechanisms for M pneumoniae–associated neurological disease have been postulated: immune-mediated damage, direct invasion of the central nervous system, and production of a neurotoxin by M pneumoniae.⁴ We report a case of cutaneous leukocytoclastic vasculitis and encephalitis associated with acute M pneumoniae infection. To our knowledge, this association has not been previously reported.

REPORT OF A CASE

A 75-year-old right-handed man presented with a 10-day history of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

COMMENT

From the Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Virgen del Camino, Pamplona, Spain.

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