Abstract
We report a case of Rumpel-Leede phenomenon in an 80-year-old man presenting in the context of lightheadedness, dizziness, and elevated at-home blood pressure readings. In this case, the finding was found quite incidentally, by a routine blood pressure measurement, and was characterized by a purpuric rash on both upper extremities, which was nonpalpable and nonblanching with pressure. The pathophysiology of this rare clinical entity involves acute rupture of dermal capillaries from capillary fragility, resulting in a self-limiting nonpurpuric rash that resolves spontaneously without intervention.
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