cutis laxa is rare and hetrogenous group of disorders related to abnormalities in elastic tissue. it may be autosomal recessive, autosomal dominant, x linked or acquired. acquired cutis laxa has developed after a febrile illness, inflammatory skin disease such a lupus eryhymatosis or erythema multiform, amyloidosis, hypersensitivity reaction to penicillin and in infants born from women who were...

Congenital cutis laxa is a genetically heterogeneous condition presenting in the newborn with loose, redundant skin folds, decreased elasticity of the skin, and general connective tissue involvement. A 2-day-old full term neonate with congenital cutis laxa presented with respiratory distress. Investigations revealed huge hiatal hernia. Patient underwent loose Nissen's fundoplication. In postope...

Filingeri D, Fournet D, Hodder S, Havenith G. Tactile cues significantly modulate the perception of sweat-induced skin wetness independently of the level of physical skin wetness. J Neurophysiol 113: 3462–3473, 2015. First published April 15, 2015; doi:10.1152/jn.00141.2015.—Humans sense the wetness of a wet surface through the somatosensory integration of thermal and tactile inputs generated b...

Retained loose bodies sometimes remain undetected in the initial evaluation of soft tissue wounds in the emergency room setting, especially if the loose body is localized deep to the skin surface or does not present as a radio-opaque density on radiography. Loose bodies retained in wounds may be associated with significant problems including inflammation, pain, and chronic infection refractory ...

Cutis laxa is a term that refers to markedly loose skin that is not hyperelastic. It is regarded as a genetically heterogeneous group of diseases and is presently divided into five types. We report a male patient with type II autosomal recessive disease. The patient was the third child of first-cousin consanguineous, healthy parents. His two siblings died a few hours after birth. One of the sib...

PURPOSE Compression garments are often worn during exercise and allegedly have ergogenic and/or physiological effects. In this study, we compared hemodynamics and running performance while wearing compression and loose-fit breeches. We hypothesized that in neutral-warm environment compression breeches impair performance by diminishing body cooling via evaporative sweat loss and redistributing b...

Costello syndrome is a rare, distinctive, multiple congenital anomaly syndrome, characterized by soft, loose skin with deep palmar and plantar creases, loose joints, distinctive coarse facial features and skeletal and cardiac abnormalities. The affected patients have a predisposition to develop malignancy, developmental delays and mental retardation. Recently, a 7-year-old male child born to no...

cutis laxa (cl) is a rare congenital and acquired disorder characterized by loose and redundant skin with reduced elasticity. three types of congenital cutis laxa have been recognized. other findings are pulmonary emphysema, bronchiectasia, hernia and diverticulosis. we describe a female neonate involved by cutis laxa syndrome and a positive family history. we focus on the radiologic findings o...

Laxity and wrinkles of the lower eyelid skin are common manifestations of photoaging. They often appear earlier on the eyelids than on adjacent facial skin. The pulsed CO2 laser has been shown to tighten loose skin and reduce wrinkles in the periorbital region (Fitzpatrick 1996). The authors of this study suggested that the improvements were due to tissue-heating effects that vaporized intracel...