Volume 25, Issue 117, November 2021

Yellow Urticaria in a patient with gallbladder stones: A case report and review of literature

Moteb Alotaibi¹, Abdullah Khojah^2♦, Asmaa Khojah², Hadeel Alseleem³, Maha Binsaqr², Mai Alshammari², Rahaf Aldawish²

¹Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, Unaizah College of Medicine and Medical Science, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia
²College of Medicine, Sulaiman Al Rajhi University, Al Bukayriah, AlQassim, Saudi Arabia
³General practitioner, Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
College of Medicine, Sulaiman Al Rajhi University, Al Bukayriah, Al-Qassim, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Yellow urticaria is a rare type of urticaria and the exact etiology behind it is still unclear. We report a case of 53-years-old medically free male with pruritic yellow to orange wheals over his trunk and extremities after receiving his first dose of COVID-19 Vaccine (Pfizer-BioNTech) with no evidence of angioedema or anaphylaxis. All the reported cases of yellow urticaria almost share the same cause which is hyperbilirubinemia due to wide spectrum of liver diseases. In conclusion, it is crucial for clinicians to be familiar with this presentation of yellow urticaria and correlate it with the patient history related to liver disease , as this urticaria often signify the presence of various liver disorders.

Keywords: Yellow Urticaria, bilirubin, gallbladder stones, hyperbilirubinemia

Medical Science, 2021, 25(117), 3072-3077

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