Temporal relationship between HS and obesity is not established.To compare baseline BMI and change in BMI between HS patients and controls before and after diagnosis.Retrospective case-control analysis of 1,284 HS …
Measuring fatigue: a meta-review.
There is a lack of validated tools to measure fatigue in patients with inflammatory skin, neuropsychiatric, and medical disorders. The use of nonvalidated tools may compromise the quality of data. …
Juvenile xanthogranuloma: retrospective analysis of 44 pediatric cases (single tertiary care center experience).
Juvenile xanthogranuloma (JXG) is a rarely encountered skin disorder, which is characterized by the proliferation of non-Langerhans cell histiocytes. As JXG primarily affects infants and young children, this study aims …
Cepharanthine induces the proliferation of human dermal papilla cells and stimulates VEGF expression through increased intracellular calcium mobilization and HIF activation.
Cepharanthine (CEP), which is extracted from Stephania cephalantha, is commonly prescribed to treat alopecia areata; however, the scientific evidence for its efficacy is limited.To investigate the effect of CEP and …
Clinical efficacy of popular oral hair growth supplement ingredients.
Hair supplements are a vast and growing industry. Patients often turn to oral supplements to address hair concerns as they are easily accessible. There are numerous products on the market, …
The CROWN Act and Dermatology: Taking a stand against race-based hair discrimination.
Race-based hair discrimination continues to disadvantage people of color who have been sent home from school or dismissed from their jobs on the premise that certain hairstyles — such as …
Screening for infantile hepatic hemangioma in patients with cutaneous infantile hemangioma: a multicenter prospective study.
Abdominal ultrasonography has been proposed for screen infantile hepatic hemangioma (IHH) in patients with multiple cutaneous infantile hemangiomas (IHs).The aim of this study was to establish the optimal cutoff point …
The cutaneous effects of long-term use of Dead Sea mud on healthy skin: a 4-week study.
To investigate the effects of various types of Dead Sea mud (DSM) on skin barrier properties over a period of four weeks.The effects of a 4-week application of three types …
Co-occurrence of Aicardi-Goutières syndrome type 6 and dyschromatosis symmetrica hereditaria due to compound heterozygous pathogenic variants in ADAR1: a case series from India.
Aicardi-Goutières syndrome type 6 (AGS6) and dyschromatosis symmetrica hereditaria (DSH) are allelic disorders due to homozygous/ compound heterozygous and heterozygous mutations in ADAR1 respectively. We report three unrelated children presenting …
Immune checkpoint-mediated psoriasis: a multicentric European study of 115 patients from European Network for Cutaneous ADverse Event to Oncologic drugs (ENCADO) group.
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs)-mediated psoriasis poses significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenges.To report data on ICI-mediated psoriasis, emerging from the largest so far cohort and to propose a step-by-step management algorithm.The …