Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), systemic inflammatory response syndrome and sepsis: a database study.

Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) has unclear pathophysiology and etiology, but it is not an infectious disease. However, HS is frequently mistaken for an infection and HS patients are treated for recurrent bacterial abscesses, or admitted for sepsis. A systematic literature search that is published as a separate paper did not identify an index case that demonstrates that sepsis can originate in an HS lesions.1 However, since HS patients get admitted for sepsis anyway, we wanted to characterize them.