Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Psoriasis is not only a skin disease, is a chronic inflammatory disease associated with serious comorbidities: psoriatic arthritis, metabolic syndrome (obesity, dyslipidemia and insulin resistance), Crohn’s disease, depression, ocular problems, cardio-vascular diseases (myocardial infarction), cancer.Methods: 1236 patients (male 54.13% and female 45.87%) with psoriasis were seen in an Outpatient Clinic over a period of 8 years (2004&#1...

Case report: A 52-year-old woman had an appointment at the dermatology department for a previous diagnosis of melasma. She was seen in October and her pigmentation had appeared somewhere during summer. She did not recall any drug intake, she denied sun exposure in the recent past, and she was a social employee working indoor.At the clinical examination intense hyperpigmentation around the eyes was noted. In contrast with the rest of the skin of normal as...

Ganuloma annulare (GA) is a self-limited inflammatory dermatosis, clinically characterized by the presence of papules arranged in annular or circinate pattern, mostly on the extremities. GA has rarely been reported in childhood, although is a not a rare condition seen in adulthood. Aetiology and pathogenesis of GA are still unknown, although variable associations have been reported, during last decades, with diabetes mellitus, thyroid disorders, HIV infection, malignancies, tu...

Guidelines recommend hormonal treatment in severe acne, in forms of acne with no response to standard therapeutical options, in women with proved hyperandrogenism. Hormonal therapy for acne includes oral contraceptives; anti-androgens, such as cyproterone acetate, spironolactone and flutamide; low-dose glucocorticoids and gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists.In daily practice there are many cases with moderate to severe forms of acne, in young women w...

Vitiligo is a common skin depigmenting disease, which is thought to have, at least partly, an autoimmune etiology.Our objective was to compare the frequency of thyroid peroxidase antibody (anti-TPO) in vitiligo patients over a period of 3 years (2010–2012) in our Department.Methods: Anti-TPO levels were assessed in order to detect any correlation with the onset, the evolution and the treatment of vitiligo. Patients with vitili...