Unusual complications of warfarin therapy: skin necrosis and priapism.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Skin necrosis and priapism are unusual complications of warfarin therapy. We report a teenager with warfarin-associated skin necrosis and priapism who was subsequently found to be a compound heterozygote for protein C deficiency and a heterozygote for the factor V Leiden mutation.
Medical subject headings
- Adolescent
- Anticoagulants
- Anticoagulants/adverse effects
- Drug Eruptions
- Drug Eruptions/complications
- Drug Eruptions/etiology
- Drug Eruptions/pathology
- Factor V
- Factor V/genetics
- Humans
- Male
- Necrosis
- Priapism
- Priapism/chemically induced
- Priapism/complications
- Protein C Deficiency
- Protein C Deficiency/complications
- Thrombophilia
- Thrombophilia/genetics
- Warfarin
- Warfarin/adverse effects