Pyoderma Gangrenosum with an Underlying Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency Type?1 (LAD-1) and Pregnancy in the Shade of COVID-19 Epidemic: A Patient and Physician Experience

摘要

In the first part of this article, the anonymous patient diagnosed with leukocyte adhesion deficiency type?1 (LAD-1) and pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) discusses her experience of her medical history and treatment in a foreign country during her pregnancy and the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic. The patient’s dermatologists, immunologist, and diagnostician refer to the epidemiology, genetics, diagnosis, morphologic manifestations, including skin lesions, treatment, and prognosis in LAD-1. The patient’s diagnostic and therapeutic process was discussed in the last part of this paper.