Ritter's disease

Introduction: Ritter's disease

Description of Ritter's disease

Ritter's disease (medical condition): A rare infantile skin disorder involving severe redness,...more »

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Ritter syndrome:
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Ritter's disease: A rare disease that occurs in newborns and is caused by upper respiratory staphylococcal infection. It results in the appearance and spread of red spots across the body followed by peeling of large areas of skin. The condition may be fatal if not treated. Also called Lyell's disease or dermatitis exfoliativa neonatorum.

Ritter's disease: A disease of infants due to group 2 phage type 17 staphylococci that produce an epidermolytic exotoxin. Superficial fine vesicles and bullae form and rupture easily, resulting in loss of large sheets of epidermis.
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Ritter's disease: Related Topics

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• Ritter
• Ritter syndrome
• Newborns
• Respiratory
• Respiratory symptoms (5166 causes)
• Respiratory disease
• Respiratory disorder (35 causes)
• Staphylococcal

Ritter's disease as a Disease

Ritter's disease: Another name for Ritter syndrome (or close medical condition association).
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Ritter's disease: Related Diseases

Ritter's disease: Ritter's disease is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

• Skin conditions
• Infant health conditions
• Mucous membrane conditions

Causes of Ritter's disease

Some of the causes of Ritter's disease are included in the list below:

• Staphylococcus aureus

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Symptoms of Ritter's disease (Ritter syndrome)

Some of the symptoms of Ritter's disease incude:

• Irritability
• Pain
• Shedding of outer skin layer in large sheets
• Nikolsky sign
• Red, weeping skin resulting from skin shedding

See full list of 26 symptoms of Ritter's disease (Ritter syndrome)

Ritter's disease: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Ritter's disease:

• staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
• exotoxin
• Duke's disease
• Nikolsky's sign
• Ritter's disease of newborn

Terms associated with Ritter's disease:

Terms Similar to Ritter's disease:

• Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
• Pemphigus neonatorum

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Hierarchical classifications of Ritter's disease

The following list attempts to classify Ritter's disease into categories where each line is subset of the next.

Disease Ontology - OBO (Open Biomedical Ontologies)

• Other specified erythematous conditions
• Erythematous conditions
• OTHER INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS OF SKIN AND SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE
• DISEASES OF THE SKIN AND SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE
• DISEASES AND INJURIES
• Disease Ontology V2.1 2005

External links related to: Ritter's disease

• DermAtlas: Online Dermatology Image Library dermatology image,staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome,Staphylococcal infection,Nikolsky sign,erythroderma
• eMedicine - Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome : Article by Randall W King, MD
• Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (SSSS). DermNet NZ
• Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome-1
• eMedicine - Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome : Article by Jessica H Kim, MD
• Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome-2

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