Factor V Leiden mutation-related chronic skin ulcers

Int J Low Extrem Wounds. 2013 Mar;12(1):35-8. doi: 10.1177/1534734613479379. Epub 2013 Feb 26.

Abstract

Chronic skin ulcers require extensive, systemic differential diagnosis; thus, they are difficult to diagnose and treat. Transient or persistent hypercoagulable states are among the rare causes of skin ulcers. Here, we present the case of a 27-year-old woman patient with recurrent, nonhealing skin ulcers of 8 years' duration, who had been treated unsuccessfully with various medications under different diagnoses at different clinics. On admission, a skin biopsy demonstrated occlusive vasculopathy, and the search for an inherited hypercoagulable state revealed a heterozygous factor V Leiden mutation. The patient was treated with anticoagulants and hyperbaric oxygen. On treatment, the skin lesions healed and did not recur.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Biopsy
  • Chronic Disease
  • DNA / genetics*
  • DNA Mutational Analysis
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Factor V / genetics*
  • Factor V / metabolism
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Point Mutation*
  • Recurrence
  • Skin Diseases, Vascular / blood
  • Skin Diseases, Vascular / complications*
  • Skin Diseases, Vascular / genetics
  • Skin Ulcer / blood
  • Skin Ulcer / etiology
  • Skin Ulcer / genetics*

Substances

  • factor V Leiden
  • Factor V
  • DNA