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Degos Disease

October 13, 2009

What is Degos Disease or Dago Disease?

Degos disease (also called malignant atrophic papulosis) is an extremely rare vasculopathy that affects the lining of the medium and smallveins and arteries, resulting in occlusion (blockage of the vessel) and tissue infarction.

The blood vessels affected include those supplying the skin, gastrointestinal tract, and central nervous system. This can result in bowel ischemia (mesenteric ischemia or ischemic colitis), chronic skin lesions, ocular lesions, strokes, spinal lesions, mononeuritis multiplex,epilepsy, headaches or cognitive disorders. Pleural or pericardial effusions are also reported.

The disease is named for Robert Degos who recognised it as a clinical entity in 1942, after it was first described by Kohlmeier in 1941. (Source)

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