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ORPHA:324636Disease
Also called GDS · Gardner-Diamond syndrome · Painful bruising syndrome · Psychogenic purpura
What it is
A rare autoimmune disease with skin involvement characterized by recurrent episodes with isolated or multiple painful edematous inflammatory skin lesions progressing to ecchymoses within 24 hours, due to autosensitization to a stromal component of the patient's own erythrocytes. The development of the lesions is usually preceded by emotional or physical stress, followed by a prodromal stage with fatigue or malaise. Lower limbs and trunk are the most frequently involved sites. Accompanying features may include fever, arthralgia, myalgia, headache, gastrointestinal problems, or hematuria and epistaxis, among others. The disease occurs predominantly in women.
Key facts
- Prevalence
- <1 / 1 000 000
- Age of onset
- Adult
- Inheritance
- Unknown
- Classified as
- Disease
Prevalence figures describe populations, not individuals, and are often estimates from a single study. Where the figure is an incidence or a birth prevalence, it says so.
Signs and symptoms
Common30–79%
4Sometimes5–29%
30- Abnormality of the face
- Abnormality of the nervous system
- Anxiety
- Arthralgia
- Asthenia
- Borderline personality disorder
- Depression
- Diarrhea
and 22 more in this range
These ranges are how often a sign appears across everyone diagnosed, not a prediction for one person — most people have some of these and not others. Orphanet also records findings that are specifically absent in this disease; those are in the data but not listed here.
ICD-10 codes
Related health topics
Reached through the ICD-10 categories this disease is filed under, so these describe the broader group rather than this disease specifically.
Cross-references
Orphadata Science: Free access data from Orphanet. © INSERM 1999. Data version 2026-06-23. Available under CC BY 4.0. This is a reference, not medical advice.
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