Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody Induction due to Infection: A Patient with Infective Endocarditis and Chronic Hepatitis C

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(a) Photograph of the patient’s resolving purpura involving his legs one week into antibiotic therapy. (b) Corresponding hematoxylin and eosin-stained histopathology at 20x magnification of a punch biopsy of one of the lesions on his leg, showing mild perivascular inflammation with focally extravasated erythrocytes consistent with a resolving purpuric process. No leukocytoclastic vasculitis was seen.

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