Question 115 · LEK · IgA vasculitis
A child refers to the physician with small petechiae on the thighs, joint pains and proteinuria. The mother reports that 2 weeks earlier her child had bacterial pharyngitis. Which of the following should be suspected?
- A. Henoch-Schönlein purpura.
- B. arthritis.
- C. measles.
- D. idiopathic thrombocytopenia.
- E. vascular purpura.
Hint
Link lower-limb skin bleeding, joint pain and kidney involvement appearing a couple of weeks after a throat infection.
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