Globally, burn injuries are common major health problems. Infection of burn injuries is a common complication as well as a major cause of death among burn patients. The aim of this research work was to evaluate the diversity of bacterial population in burn wound of patients hospi...
Herpes zoster is a viral infection, that can be seen as painful rash or blisters on the skin which is caused by Varicella zoster virus. The people who are at risk of getting shingles after having chickenpox are people with weakened immune system. People over 50 years of age, trau...
Background: Metabolic syndrome (MS) and Psoriasis are chronic inflammatory conditions resulting from multifactorial pathogenesis comprising hereditary and environmental factors. The main common factor to link these conditions is Intestinal Hyper permeability (IHP), also known as...
Background: Skin conditions are noted to be common in adolescence and are known to affect the quality of life resulting in some cases severe emotional outcomes such as depression. Knowledge of this spectrum of dermatoses in a tertiary health institution will assist in quantifying...
Replacing the tumor volume with an eventual fibrotic tissue, the histologic phenomenon of regression has been described to target cutaneous melanoma sometimes partially and less often completely. Regressive melanomas have been a source of debate in figuring out whether this corre...
Background: Striae distensae (stretch mark) is a skin disorder with social and psychological impact on young adult females. Despite its high prevalence in Nigeria, there is scarcity of information on its association with some biochemical indices of kidney function. Objective: The...
Aims: The prevalence and severity of striae distensae vary among populations, although it poses no health risk but has a significant psychological effect. This research carried out at Imo State University was to determine the serum levels of some immunoglobulins (IgG, IgE, and Ig...
Skin disorders are a common cause of morbidity. Globally, the major bulk of these disorders is represented by dermatitis (atopic, contact, and seborrheic dermatitis), acne vulgaris, psoriasis, urticaria, viral skin diseases, fungal skin diseases, scabies, malignant skin melanoma,...
Brian Mark Churchill, Charu Gautam, Saket Ghaisas, Rashna Cama, Craig Davis, Bela Shah, Kiran Godse, Yogesh Marfatia, Ramesh Bhat, Sushil Pande & Sonja Vanwye·Asian Journal of Research in Dermatological Science·2022
Psoriasis is a non-communicable disease characterized by inflammation involving cutaneous T cells, dendritic cells, and keratinocytes. Release of cytokines leads to keratinocyte hyperproliferation and scaly plaques, and other manifestations of the disease including psoriatic arth...
Acne vulgaris is a chronic inflammatory disease associated with the pilosebaceous follicle of the skin. The development of antibiotics resistance by species of bacteria associated with this disease condition has been attributed to the indiscriminate and overuse of certain antibio...