Assessing health-related quality of life in hand eczema patients: how to overcome psychometric faults when using the dermatology life quality index.

abstract：:The aim of this study is to assess the associations between chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU), Helicobacter pylori infection and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. Forty- eight patients with CSU were studied by scoring the urticaria activity and assesing the quality of life. Patients with H. pylori infection (n=...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Campanati A,Gesuita R,Giannoni M,Piraccini F,Sandroni L,Martina E,Conocchiari L,Bendia E,Di Sario A,Offidani A

更新日期：2013-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We used T-cell receptor excision circles (TREC) to evaluate thymic function in adult patients with atopic dermatitis and psoriasis. We observed that men, but not women, with atopic dermatitis had a significantly faster decline in TREC content with increasing age compared with healthy men. In contrast, both men and wom...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Just HL,Deleuran M,Vestergaard C,Deleuran B,Thestrup-Pedersen K

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atopic dermatitis is a multifactorial disorder probably caused by environmental factors in combination with susceptibility genes. The clinical similarity between atopic dermatitis and the eczema manifestation in patients with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome made the previously identified WAS gene in chromosome sub-band Xpl 1...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Bradley M,Söderhäll C,Wahlgren CF,Luthman H,Nordenskjöld M,Kockum I

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analysed the cytokine profile of skin T cells by establishing 11 T-cell lines from adult patients with moderate-to-severe atopic eczema using T-cell growth factors interleukin-2 and interleukin-4. We compared T-cell lines from lesional skin of atopic dermatitis patients with those from non-atopic skin of patients w...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Higashi N,Bang K,Gesser B,Lund M,Thestrup-Pedersen K

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anisakis simplex is a seafish nematode, which is responsible for the well-known human infection (anisakiasis) and can induce IgE-mediated reactions. IgE sensitization to Anisakis simplex can be frequent in particular countries and should be suspected in patients with acute allergic symptoms after ingestion of fish. Th...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Foti C,Nettis E,Cassano N,Di Mundo I,Vena GA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary excretion of glycosaminoglycans was measured in 10 patients with pretibial myxoedema, 7 of whom also had thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy, and in 3 additional patients with ophthalmopathy but no skin changes. Total uronic acid excretion was raised above control levels in only 2 patients, who had both eye and ...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Priestley GC,Aldridge RD,Hurel S

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eosinophilic pustular folliculitis is an inflammatory skin disease characterized by pruritic follicular papulopustules. It is usually resistant to topical and/or systemic corticosteroids, but it responds well to systemic indomethacin. We report here two patients with classical-type disease who were treated with system...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Satoh T,Shimura C,Miyagishi C,Yokozeki H

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The venoarteriolar vasoconstriction reflex plays a major role in the prevention of leg oedema in the upright position in man. We studied the venoarteriolar vasoconstriction reflex with laser Doppler flowmetry in young (21 subjects, age 17-27) and very old (20 subjects, age 75-100) healthy volunteers. In the group of y...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Gniadecka M,Gniadecki R,Serup J,Søndergaard J

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-inflammatory mechanisms of minocycline, an antibiotic used in the treatment of the inflammatory component of acne, are only partially understood. In addition to inflammation due to cytokines (IL-1, IL-6, TNF-alpha, etc.), recent studies have shown that neuropeptide-mediated neurogenic inflammation may play an...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Sainte-Marie I,Tenaud I,Jumbou O,Dréno B

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with atopic dermatitis, the skin is often 'dry' on non-eczematous areas, and feels rough to the touch. In the scanning electron microscope (SEM) this roughness corresponds to a change in the skin surface, from regular major and minor furrows into a coarse and irregular pattern. In the present study the top...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Linde YW,Bengtsson A,Lodén M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The forearm skin of 10 Caucasians and 10 American Negroes was inoculated with Candida albicans and the severity of the ensuing dermatitis as well as the population of Candida and other aerobes in the inoculum site have been assessed. Negroid skin proved to be less susceptible to irritation, even though it harboured a ...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Rebora A,Guarrera M

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functions of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) emigrating into the skin and of others separated simultaneously from the circulation were determined and compared in healthy individuals. The PMNs emigrating into the skin were separated with a skin chamber technique. The C3 rosette forming capacities of the skin mi...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Csato M,Dobozy A,Raith L,Simon N

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty lightly pigmented hairless (Hr/Hr) mice were irradiated 5 days per week for 30 weeks to assess the photocarcinogenicity of a new Philips TL 01 narrow-band (311 nm +/- 2) UVB lamp. All mice were found to be tumour-bearing after 16 weeks and histologically, 83% of these had definite squamous cell carcinomas. Comp...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Flindt-Hansen H,McFadden N,Eeg-Larsen T,Thune P

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous immunofluorescence studies on pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) proved negative. Biopsies from the ulcer edge of 8 patients with PG were examined by immunofluorescence microscopy. Deposits of complement C3 were seen in the vessel walls of all samples, IgM in three and IgA in one. Granular deposits of C3 were seen at ...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Ullman S,Halberg P,Howitz J

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of refractory atopic dermatitis has increased in teenagers and young adults. The purpose of this study was to control the skin symptoms of such patients in daily life. Seventy patients repeatedly took a 10-min 42 degrees C acidic hot-spring bath twice daily. The skin symptoms were improved in 76% of case...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Kubota K,Machida I,Tamura K,Take H,Kurabayashi H,Akiba T,Tamura J

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biopsies for electron microscopy were obtained from syphilitic chancres of 7 patients, 6 males and one female. In 4 of the patients, Treponemata pallida were seen gathering around peripheral nerves and invading the spaces between Schwann cells and their basal lamina. No definite degenerative changes were seen in the a...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Secher L,Weismann K,Kobayasi T

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of non-allergenic structural analogues on the sensitizing potential of carvone, a fragrance allergen. The possibility that one molecule might inhibit the allergenic activity of another molecule has been debated for 25 years. The Research Institute for Fragrance Materi...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Karlberg AT,Nilsson AM,Luthman K,Nilsson JL

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-day-old rat skins were treated either by the freezing--thawing method or by the tetraphenylboron technique. After the former procedure, keratohyalin granules were solubilized, leaving empty spaces with an electron-dense or less dense rim. Particles roughly 200 A in diameter, which were either electron-dense or l...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Tezuka T,Hirai R

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data regarding the efficacy and safety of methotrexate (MTX) in adults with localized scleroderma (LoS) is scarce. This study gathered data from a retrospective cohort of adult patients with LoS (n?=?107), treated with MTX (1993-2015). MTX drug survival and predictors thereof were analysed. After 1 and 2 years, 26% an...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Mertens JS,van den Reek JM,Kievit W,van de Kerkhof PC,Thurlings RM,Radstake TR,Seyger MM,de Jong EM

更新日期：2016-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A man with AIDS is described in whom a profound weight loss was converted into a weight gain by treatment with megoestrol acetate, a synthetic progesterone. His appetite improved and was accompanied by a feeling of improved well-being. Following abrupt discontinuation of the drug, there was a significant but transient...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Nathwani D,Green ST,Heslop JM,Goldberg DJ,Kennedy DH

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with palpebral cellulitis may turn in the first place to a skin clinic. The clinical picture and the course of disease are illustrated here by four case histories. The importance of differentiating between collateral orbital edema, palpebral cellulitis and orbital cellulitis is stressed. ...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Roed-Petersen J,Larsen HW

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 39-year-old man presented with multiple basaloid follicular hamartomas involving the right side of his body in a systematized pattern following Blaschko's lines. His right leg was 22.5 cm shorter than the left, and rudimentary pre-axial polydactyly was noted on the left hand and the right foot. The teeth of the righ...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Happle R,Tinschert S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Papillon-Lefèvre syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by palmoplantar hyperkeratosis and aggressive periodontitis. The aim of the study was to identify underlying cathepsin C mutations in 39 subjects with Papillon-Lefèvre syndrome and to explore any phenotypic associations. Genotyping and mutation...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Ullbro C,El-Samadi S,Boumah C,Al-Yousef N,Wakil S,Twetman S,Alfadley A,Thestrup-Pedersen K,Meyer B

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the development of atrophic gastritis, gastric secretory function was examined by a standard pentagastrin test 24 to 78 months after a previous examination (Ex I). The study included 12 patients with dermatitis herpetiformis (DH), 6 patients with functional signs of atrophic gastritis previously, and...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Stockbrügger R,Kastrup W,Lundqvist G,Mobacken H

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal skin and psoriatic lesions from 35 patients were investigated immunohistochemically with regard to the CD1a+ cell population (Langerhans' cells and indeterminate cells) in the epidermis as well as in the dermal infiltrate. In the normal-appearing skin, we found the regularly typical pattern of CD1a+ dendritic c...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Bieber T,Braun-Falco O

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultrastructure of dermal connective tissue in two patients suffering from fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (syn myositis o.p.) was studied. The disorder starts with soft tissue swelling which subsequently ossify. The connective tissue of various organs may be affected. No defects in calcium metabolism have be...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Hentzer B,Kobayasi T,Asboe-Hansen G

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to clarify the pathophysiology of haemodynamics in legs with venous ulcer we investigated the effect of a single intermittent pneumatic compression treatment on the peripheral resistance of leg arteries and the cutaneous laser Doppler flux in the leg. Eight patients with venous leg ulcers and 10 subjects...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Malanin K,Kolari PJ,Havu VK

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty psoriatic out-patients were treated as a right-left comparison with dithranol (0.1, 0.5, 1, 2%) and butantrone (0.66, 1.3, 2.7, 3.9%) short contact therapy, both in white petrolatum. Fifteen of the treated patients cleared well and no obvious differences between the treated sides were clinically observed. Six p...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Göransson A

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunotherapy with wasp allergen leads to a variety of specific immunological changes. It is unknown, however, whether unspecific effects also occur, and which parameter shifts might indicate treatment success. Therefore, data of patients who had completed immunotherapy with wasp venom were analysed retrospectively fo...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Brasch J,Maidusch T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disutility reflects the disability caused by a disease. The EuroQoL-5D (EQ-5D) questionnaire is a measure of health-related overall utility. The questionnaire has only been applied previously to a small number of patients with hidradenitis. In this study a survey of 421 patients with hidradenitis suppurativa was condu...

journal_title：Acta dermato-venereologica

authors： Riis PT,Vinding GR,Ring HC,Jemec GB

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00