title: [Sports purpura].
abstract: Recreational or regular physical and sport activities may be responsible for a wide range of cutaneous complications. Among them, "sports purpura" is a peculiar symptom that can occur during a large number of sports. "Effort purpura" defines any purpura occurring within the context of physical exercise irrespective of its cause. Therefore this clinical diagnosis includes various aetiologies. Diagnosis of traumatic purpura is often easy if the sport is mentioned in the anamnesis; cutaneous exercise - induced vasculitis must be also noted. Purpura can reveal systemic diseases or internal haemorrhage, such as spleen rupture, thrombopathies or systemic vasculitis, and other effort purpuras must be taken into account, including those related to the environment (cold, sun exposure...). Knowledge of a physical activity before the occurrence of purpura should be known by practitioner to avoid unnecessary and costly explorations in most of the cases.
authors.affiliation: University of Helsinki, Helsinki university central hospital, skin and allergy hospital, institute of clinical medicine, department of dermatology, HUS - 00029, Finlande. nicolaskluger@yahoo.fr
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kluger
mesh_terms: D056352:Athletes; D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D005082:Physical Exertion / Q000502:physiology; D011693:Purpura / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D013177:Sports / Q000502:physiology; D014657:Vasculitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology