Book contents
- Uncommon Causes of Stroke
- Uncommon Causes of Stroke
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- PART I: INFECTIOUS AND INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS
- PART II: HEREDITARY AND GENETIC CONDITIONS AND MALFORMATIONS
- PART III: VASCULAR CONDITIONS OF THE EYES, EARS, AND BRAIN
- PART IV: DISORDERS INVOLVING ABNORMAL COAGULATION
- PART V: SYSTEMIC DISORDERS THAT ALSO INVOLVE THE CEREBROVASCULAR SYSTEM
- 43 MICROSCOPIC POLYANGIITIS AND POLYARTERITIS NODOSA
- 44 CHURG-STRAUSS SYNDROME
- 45 SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS
- 46 RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE
- 47 HYPERVISCOSITY AND STROKE
- 48 CALCIUM, HYPERCALCEMIA, MAGNESIUM, AND BRAIN ISCHEMIA
- 49 STROKE AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE
- 50 CANCER AND PARANEOPLASTIC STROKES
- 51 KOHLMEIER-DEGOS’ DISEASE (MALIGNANT ATROPHIC PAPULOSIS)
- 52 STROKE IN PATIENTS WHO HAVE INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
- 53 SWEET’S SYNDROME (ACUTE FEBRILE NEUTROPHILIC DERMATOSIS)
- 54 NEPHROTIC SYNDROME AND OTHER RENAL DISEASES AND STROKE
- 55 EPIDERMAL NEVUS SYNDROME
- 56 SNEDDON’S SYNDROME
- 57 MITOCHONDRIAL AND METABOLIC CAUSES OF STROKE
- 58 BONE DISORDERS AND CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES
- 59 SCLERODERMA
- PART VI: NONINFLAMMATORY DISORDERS OF THE ARTERIAL WALL
- PART VII: VENOUS OCCLUSIVE CONDITIONS
- PART VIII: VASOSPASTIC CONDITIONS AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS VASCULOPATHIES
- PART IX: OTHER MISCELLANEOUS CONDITIONS
- Index
53 - SWEET’S SYNDROME (ACUTE FEBRILE NEUTROPHILIC DERMATOSIS)
from PART V: - SYSTEMIC DISORDERS THAT ALSO INVOLVE THE CEREBROVASCULAR SYSTEM
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2010
Book contents
- Uncommon Causes of Stroke
- Uncommon Causes of Stroke
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- PART I: INFECTIOUS AND INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS
- PART II: HEREDITARY AND GENETIC CONDITIONS AND MALFORMATIONS
- PART III: VASCULAR CONDITIONS OF THE EYES, EARS, AND BRAIN
- PART IV: DISORDERS INVOLVING ABNORMAL COAGULATION
- PART V: SYSTEMIC DISORDERS THAT ALSO INVOLVE THE CEREBROVASCULAR SYSTEM
- 43 MICROSCOPIC POLYANGIITIS AND POLYARTERITIS NODOSA
- 44 CHURG-STRAUSS SYNDROME
- 45 SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS
- 46 RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE
- 47 HYPERVISCOSITY AND STROKE
- 48 CALCIUM, HYPERCALCEMIA, MAGNESIUM, AND BRAIN ISCHEMIA
- 49 STROKE AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE
- 50 CANCER AND PARANEOPLASTIC STROKES
- 51 KOHLMEIER-DEGOS’ DISEASE (MALIGNANT ATROPHIC PAPULOSIS)
- 52 STROKE IN PATIENTS WHO HAVE INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
- 53 SWEET’S SYNDROME (ACUTE FEBRILE NEUTROPHILIC DERMATOSIS)
- 54 NEPHROTIC SYNDROME AND OTHER RENAL DISEASES AND STROKE
- 55 EPIDERMAL NEVUS SYNDROME
- 56 SNEDDON’S SYNDROME
- 57 MITOCHONDRIAL AND METABOLIC CAUSES OF STROKE
- 58 BONE DISORDERS AND CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES
- 59 SCLERODERMA
- PART VI: NONINFLAMMATORY DISORDERS OF THE ARTERIAL WALL
- PART VII: VENOUS OCCLUSIVE CONDITIONS
- PART VIII: VASOSPASTIC CONDITIONS AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS VASCULOPATHIES
- PART IX: OTHER MISCELLANEOUS CONDITIONS
- Index
Summary
Sweet's syndrome (SS), also referred to as acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis, is characterized by a constellation of symptoms and findings: fever, neutrophilia, erythematous and tender skin lesions that typically show an upper dermal infiltrate of mature neutrophils, and prompt improvement of both symptoms and lesions after the initiation of treatment with systemic corticosteroids. Many instances are related to lympho proliferative disorders such as acute and chronic leukemia, acute and chronic lymphatic leukemia, hairy cell leukemia, polycythemia vera, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma, and other diseases of the hematopoietic system. Encephalitis and meningitis were the most common neurological manifestations. An elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and peripheral leukocytosis with neutrophilia are the most consistent laboratory findings in SS. The standard therapy is administration of prednisone or prednisolone at an initial dose of 0.5-1.5 mg/kg body weight with a subsequent slow reduction over 2-4 weeks.
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- Uncommon Causes of Stroke , pp. 387 - 390Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008