[Mucha-Habermann disease and orthotopic heart transplant. Case report].

Abstract

BACKGROUND:

Mucha-Habermann disease is a cutaneous clinical manifestation of unknown etiology that frequently appears in young patients. The aim was to present Mucha-Habermann disease that occurred in an old man who had a heart transplant.

CLINICAL CASE:

a 62 year-old male, heart transplant recipient, who four years after that transplantation procedure presented with papular lesions in neck, thoracic members of which extended to all body surfaces and that evolved vesicles and pustular lesions. A skin biopsy was performed and Mucha-Habermann disease was diagnosed. The patient was treated with steroids and antimicrobial therapy with favorable response. After two years there are no skin lesions.

CONCLUSIONS:

Mucha-Habermann disease is a low frequency disease and it requires skin biopsy to confirm diagnose. This is an uncommon case due to the age and kind of patient.

• Authors: Hugo Zetina-Tun, Gustavo Armando de la Cerda-Belmont, Carlos Alberto Lezama-Urtecho, Guillermo Careaga-Reyna
• Journal: Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc) Vol. 51 Issue 4 Pg. 456-8 ( 2013) ISSN: 0443-5117 [Print] Mexico
• Vernacular Title: Enfermedad de Mucha-Habermann y trasplante ortotópico de corazón. Informe de un caso clínico.
• PMID: 24021078 (Publication Type: Case Reports, English Abstract, Journal Article)

Topics

• Heart Transplantation
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Pityriasis Lichenoides (pathology)
• Postoperative Complications (pathology)