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Erythematous Papular Rash: A Dermatological Feature of COVID-19

2020; SMC MEDIA SRL; Issue: LATEST ONLINE Linguagem: Inglês

10.12890/2020_001768

2284-2594

C. Gonçalves, Nuno Reis Carreira, Dúlio Teixeira Passos, Ana Luísa Barbosa, Ana Maria Baltazar, Alexandra Wahnon, A Abrantes, Pedro Garrido, Teresa Ferreira, Marisa Teixeira Silva, Lourdes Alvoeiro,

Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders

COVID-19 is the clinical expression of the highly contagious severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) viral infection. Most patients have mild symptoms, but a significant proportion have severe or critical disease, which can include cardiac injury, sepsis, acute kidney failure and respiratory failure. It is also worth highlighting the increasing number of reported COVID-19 cases with dermatological disease/manifestations. The cutaneous clinical spectrum is wide and includes maculopapular, urticarial, varicelliform and petechial rashes, pseudo perniosis, livedo reticularis, and pityriasis rosea-like, violaceous and pustular lesions. Until the physiological mechanism is fully understood, it is important to describe these manifestations, which could help identify a typical pattern. This report describes a cutaneous manifestation in a COVID-19 patient.