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...

A broad spectrum of cutaneous disorders may be diagnosed in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Some of dermatologic lesions may precede any clinical or biochemical evidence for diabetes, while others are considered well known complications of the metabolic disorder. We highlight typical, rare dermatological manifestations of diabetes, excluding infectious, disorders related to complications of diabetes mellitus and skin conditions induced by treatment of diabet...

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...