A woman presenting with recurrent purpura fulminans was eventually found to have inflammatory bowel disease. We suggest the inflammatory state resulted in a deficiency of functional protein C.
A 28-year-old woman presented to hospital with a 1-week history of diarrhoea (three soft, non-bloody stools daily), 2 days of vomiting, and a 12-hour history of a purpuric truncal rash.
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We would like to thank Dr Chong Ong, who supplied one of the clinical pictures.
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