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Cholera and the skin (For profesionals)
Friday, August 13th, 2010Cholera is an infectious disease due to ingestion of food or water drinking contaminated by the Vibrio Cholerae bacteria. Up to 150000 people are infected each year, 90% of which are in Africa. It leads to a profuse painless watery diarrhea which can lead to severe dehydration and death. Treatment is technically simple and consists […]
Dengue Fever and the skin (For professionals)
Thursday, August 12th, 2010Up to 100 million individuals may be infected by the dengue virus each year. The virus is transmitted through arthropod bites (usually mosquitos). Population increase makes control of mosquito population difficult as breeding sites (stagnant waters) are more numerous and less detectable (roofs…). Infection ranges from asymptomatic infection to dengue fever with/without hemorrhagic fever and […]
HIV infection/AIDS and the Skin (For professionals)
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010Dr Christophe HSU – dermatologist. Geneva, Switzerland HIV is a global pandemic caused by infection by the HIV virus. It affects more than 30 million individuals world wide. Around 70% of individuals affected live in Sub-Saharan Africa, around 20% of individuals live in South and South-East Asia. Untreated the median survival ranges from 9-11 years […]
Carrion’s Disease and the Skin (For professionals)
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010Synonyms: Verruga peruana, Peruvian warts, Oroya fever, Carrion’s disease Spanish (Español): enfermedad de Carrión, fiebre de la Oroya, verruga peruana Limited to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, the disease is caused by a facultative intracellular bacterium called Bartonella Bacilliformis. It is transmitted through a sandfly bite. Treatment consists of antibiotics. It is characterized by an acute […]
Tuberculosis and the Skin (For professionals)
Monday, August 9th, 2010Tuberculosis is an infection caused by a Mycobacterium called Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. It is a condition favoured by high population density, promiscuity (poverty, intravenous drug abusers, HIV) and the use of immunosuppressants (biologics, ciclosporine…). It is frequent in Sub-Saharan Africa, but new cases are a cause of concern, notably in China, Russia, South-East Asia and some […]
Malaria and the skin (For professionals)
Sunday, August 8th, 2010Malaria is a common infection caused by a unicellular organism called a Protist. It is transmitted by a mosquito called Anopheles. After a period of between two weeks and several months (occasionally years) spent in the liver, the malaria parasites multiply within red blood cells, causing symptoms that appear cyclically. Symptoms include fever, and headache. […]
Influenza (flu) and the skin (For professionals)
Saturday, August 7th, 2010Influenza (flu) is an ubiquitous infection caused by a RNA virus. Symptoms of the disease include sore throat, fever, cough, chills, myalgia, headache, asthenia (fatigue), general discomfort. Influenza can evolve into pneumonia, which can cause death. There is a infinite variety of different genotypes. Two proteins on the viral surface called Haemagglutinin (H) and Neuraminidase […]
Online Consultations (for professionals)
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010We consider important for medical practitioners to be able to ask for a second opinion when necessary. However, due to the practical difficulty of doing this, we wish to add value to this information website by giving you the possibility to ask the advice of a board certified dermatologist. We are proud to announce Prof […]
Alcohol (OH) and the Skin – Introduction (For professionals)
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010Alcohol consumption is a difficult to control epidemic. In some countries alcohol consumption is part of the culture and its consumption starts young and continues until death. In countries such as Russia (Russian Federation), alcohol consumption levels have reached such alarming levels that it is responsible for a reduction of life expectancy to 60 years […]
Recurrence of Melanocytic Naevi (Mole) is low after biopsy
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Low rates of clinical recurrence after biopsy of benign to moderately dysplastic melanocytic nevi (DN). Goodson AG, Florell SR, Boucher KM, Grossman D. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2010 Apr;62(4):591-6. Epub 2009 Dec 16. Clinical fear of melanoma leads to complete excision of dysplastic naevi (DN) when biopsy reveals postive margins. However this study opens the […]
