acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy is a skin condition that affects children under the age of two with a recent history of upper respiratory illness, a course of antibiotics, or both.: 833 the disease was first described in 1938 by finkelstein and later by seidlmayer as "seidlmayer cockade purpura". acute hemorrhagic edema of infancyother namesacute hemorrhagic oedema of infancy, acute hemorrhagic edema of childhood, finkelstein's disease, infantile postinfectious iris-like purpura and edema, medallion-like purpura, purpura en cocarde avec œdème and seidlmayer syndromespecialtydermatology