Purple after Adalimumab: a case report

Abstract

BACKGROUNDCrohn's disease (CD) is an inflammatory bowel disease in any portion of the luminal gastrointestinal tract. Drugs used for CD treatment can cause adverse reactions such as vasculitis. A common histologic finding of drug-related is eosinophilic leukocytoclasia vasculitis. Vasculitis related patients with CD might also occur and usually presents as necrotizing small vessels. In this report we show the case of a patient with CD who developed eosinophilic leukocytoclastic vasculitis on her lower limbs.