Sir, Pregnancy is frequently complicated by skin abnormalities, which is a cause of concern for the obstetrician and dermatologist because some pregnancy dermatoses can cause severe illness and even be life-threatening. Most common dermatoses are eczema, polymorphic eruption of pregnancy, pruritic folliculitis, prurigo and pemphigoid gestationis, but no cases of contact dermatitis were noted in...

OBJECTIVE AND METHODS This health technology assessment (HTA) report synthesises systematically randomized controlled studies (RCT) on the therapy of moderate and severe psoriasis vulgaris which were published between 1999 and 2004; it includes some important clinical studies which have been published after 2004 and thus updates the English HTA report by Griffiths et al. [1]. The major objectiv...

Although the precise causes of psoriasis remain to be elucidated, psoriasis has been known as a disorder in which factors in the immune system, enzymes and other biochemical substances that regulate skin cell division are functionally imbalanced, thereby resulting in rapid proliferation of keratinocytes and incomplete keratinization. The expression of candidate genes such as E2A and caspa...

Herein, we demonstrate a facile methodology to synthesis a novel methacrylic phosphonic acid (PA)-functionalized polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSSs) via thiol-ene click reaction using octamercapto thiol-POSS and ethylene glycol methacrylate phosphate (EGMP) monomer. The presence of phosphonic acid moieties and POSS-cage structure in POSS-S-PA was confirmed by Fourier transform infrare...

The cutaneous sequelae of burns are usually temporary loss of pigment, hypertrophic scar and keloid. Infrequently skin neoplasia such as squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, malignant melanoma and sarcoma develop within the burn scar. Because ILVEN was developed after a burn in our patient, it is suggested that the possible mechanism for the development of ILVEN may have been that the...

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3 Rivlin RS, Young EA, eds. Symposium on evidence relating selected vitamins and minerals to health and disease in the elderly population in the United States.competence of the elderly. Effect of short term nutritional supplementation on cell-mediated immunity and lymphocyte subsets. Fast atrial fibrillation induced by treatment of psoriasis with azathioprine We describe a patient with psoriasi...

A 63-year-old Kenyan Asian man began haemodialysis involvement, the risk of secondary infection leading to either line sepsis or peritonitis, and the difficulties in in April 1997. He initially presented in 1988 dialysis dependent with an ANCA-associated systemic vasculperforming surgical procedures through involved skin. Koebner’s phenomenon (the recurrence of skin lesions itis, and was treate...