scholarly journals Dermatological Findings in COVID-19 Patients: A Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Regina Dantas Jales De Oliveira ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Contact Dermatitis ◽  
Early Diagnosis ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Seborrheic Dermatitis ◽  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Clinical Tests ◽  
Cutaneous Manifestations ◽  
Research Article ◽  
The World ◽  
Pressure Injury

Introduction: In the day 16th June 2020, the number of deaths is up to 430000 and the confirmed cases are more than 8 million in the world. The dermatology clinical findings on COVID-19 patients were cutaneous manifestations as pressure injury, contact dermatitis itch, pressure urticarial and exacerbation of pre-existing skin diseases, including seborrheic dermatitis and acne Objective: This work means to show the researches doing in dermatology about COVID-19 and the findings related to them Methodology: In this research article were founded in PubMed with free texts, clinical tests and published in the last 5 years Results: Were founded 13 articles published using the terms proposed: dermatology and coronavirus and COVID-19. Five of them were written about cutaneous manifestations of COVID-19 Conclusion: Although several cutaneous manifestations had been associated with COVID-19, none so far is specific to this disease. The dermatological approach has been valued and, in the future, It is expected that dermatologists can help both in the early diagnosis of the disease and in its prognosis

scholarly journals Dermatological Findings in COVID-19 Patients: A Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Regina Dantas Jales De Oliveira ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Contact Dermatitis ◽  
Early Diagnosis ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Seborrheic Dermatitis ◽  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Clinical Tests ◽  
Cutaneous Manifestations ◽  
Research Article ◽  
The World ◽  
Pressure Injury

Introduction: In the day 16th June 2020, the number of deaths is up to 430000 and the confirmed cases are more than 8 million in the world. The dermatology clinical findings on COVID-19 patients were cutaneous manifestations as pressure injury, contact dermatitis itch, pressure urticarial and exacerbation of pre-existing skin diseases, including seborrheic dermatitis and acne Objective: This work means to show the researches doing in dermatology about COVID-19 and the findings related to them Methodology: In this research article were founded in PubMed with free texts, clinical tests and published in the last 5 years Results: Were founded 13 articles published using the terms proposed: dermatology and coronavirus and COVID-19. Five of them were written about cutaneous manifestations of COVID-19 Conclusion: Although several cutaneous manifestations had been associated with COVID-19, none so far is specific to this disease. The dermatological approach has been valued and, in the future, It is expected that dermatologists can help both in the early diagnosis of the disease and in its prognosis

scholarly journals Cutaneous manifestations of chronic alcoholism in cases attending rural tertiary cases center: a descriptive cross-sectional study

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 517
Author(s):  
P. Vidya Sagar ◽  
Vijayabhaskar Reddy ◽  
Navaneetha Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Liver Disease ◽  
Alcohol Dependence ◽  
Alcoholic Liver Disease ◽  
Seborrheic Dermatitis ◽  
Chronic Alcoholism ◽  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Alcohol Dependency ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Dermatology Department ◽  
Cutaneous Manifestations

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> Alcoholism is a potentially fatal condition damages skin directly or through organ dysfunction. Studies suggested that dermatological manifestations have also been found to be a marker of alcohol misuse. The aim of the study was to assess the various cutaneous manifestations of alcohol dependence.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> This study consisted of 205 cases diagnosed with alcohol dependency attending dermatology department and psychiatry wards, above 18 years of age. A detailed clinical examination and dermatological examination including hair, nails, oral and genital mucosa was performed. Alcoholic liver disease was diagnosed on clinical findings, abdominal sonogram and LFT.<strong></strong></p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> Among the study cases 50.25% cases had alcoholic liver disease. The severity of alcohol dependence score ranged from 1-60 with Ameena score of 24.68. It was seen that 45.23% (90) of alcoholics were mildly dependent, 41.7% (83) of alcoholics were moderately dependent, and 13.07% (26) were severely dependent on alcohol. Seborrheic dermatitis, urticaria, hyperhidrosis was among the commonly encountered dermatoses.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Cutaneous manifestations are a significant pointer to underlying, perhaps undetected problem of alcohol dependency and an awareness of these signs is imperative to alter a dermatologist to problems of alcohol abuse even in a busy clinic.</p>

scholarly journals Occupational injuries and illnesses in rubber factory: Profile, Potential Hazards and possible prevention

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tri Hari Irfani
Keyword(s):  
Contact Dermatitis ◽  
Respiratory Diseases ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
Gastrointestinal Diseases ◽  
Musculoskeletal Symptoms ◽  
Rubber Workers ◽  
Liver Cancers ◽  
The World ◽  
Mechanical Assist

Rubber is one of the important commodities in the world. Globally, workers are facing so many problems of hazards that produce by rubber process. In Indonesia, there are several data of occupational problems such as respiratory diseases, muscle and skeletal diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, diseases of the teeth and oral cavity, skin diseases and skin tissue. In Iranian rubber factory, Iran, workers had suffered from some kind of musculoskeletal symptoms. Stomach and liver cancers in workers are having in Shanghai tire factory. In addition, Germany has cancer problem of their workers who work in rubber factory. Most of the rubber process in the factory can cause some hazards of the workers. In unloading area and area that operator is taking the dirt manually, workers are facing ergonomic problems. The possible control is reduce weight of load, team lift the object with two or more workers and Use mechanical assist. Machine safeguarding is essential for protecting from Cutting process that can make workers amputation organs such as hands, and fingers. In bale process, the workers need to cut raw rubber into bale in bale cutting. Furthermore, workers are facing with amputation problem. To manage that, It must be designed as a standard which has interlocking guards to prevent access to the cutting area. When wrapped using plastic, workers use a heated iron and sticked in plastic so that it blends neatly. The risks are fingers can cut accidently and then the workers also get contamination from polyvinyl chloride (PVC). The possible preventions are use an automatic plastic wrapping machine with palletized product sitting on a turntable and respirator. Another problem is contact dermatitis that has been reported frequently among rubber workers. The prevention for that problem is using Gloves. The aim of researcher is to provide the profile of occupational injuries and illnesses, potential hazards in rubber factory to prevent the workers.

scholarly journals Pattern of occupational skin diseases among construction workers in Dhaka city

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Saiful Islam Bhuiyan ◽  
Md Shahidullah Sikder ◽  
Farhan Wadud ◽  
Sharmin Ahmed ◽  
Mohammad Omar Faruq
Keyword(s):  
Contact Dermatitis ◽  
Fungal Infection ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Seborrheic Dermatitis ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Protective Measure ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Dhaka City ◽  
Occupational Skin Diseases ◽  
Lichen Simplex Chronicus

Globally, occupational risks have been classed as the tenth leading cause of morbidity and mortality and occupational skin diseases are important problem in the construction industries. The current study was conducted to see the prevalence and pattern of skin diseases among construction workers in Dhaka city. This cross sectional observational study was conducted in the Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Dhaka, Bangladesh from July 2013 to June 2014. Four hundred workers were randomly enrolled from 20 construction areas of Dhaka city. History were taken, physical examination and laboratory tests were done to see the presence and pattern of skin diseases. Among 400 workers only 23.0% uses protective measure and 59.5% has been suffered with at least one form of skin disease. Among them different dermatoses were found in following percentages i.e. irritant contact dermatitis (ICD) (28.15%), allergic contact dermatitis (ACD) (9.24 %), acne (14.29%), seborrheic dermatitis (10.92%), burn/scald (5.46%), accidental injury (7.14%), scabies (23.53%), fungal infection (dermatophytosis/pityriasis versicolor/candidiasis) (23.53%), palmoplantar keratoderma (13.87%), lichen simplex chronicus (3.78%), pyoderma (4.20%) and urticaria (2.52 %). Construction workers in Dhaka city bear a great burden of skin diseases, among which contact dermatitis is the most common and other skin diseases include fungal infection, scabies and acne. These occupational skin diseases may be prevented by providing improved work place, protective means, health education, adequate health services and improving professional skills.Bangladesh Med J. 2015 Jan; 44 (1): 11-15

scholarly journals Pattern of skin diseases among workers in ship-breaking yards in Bangladesh

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-150
Author(s):  
Md Shahidullah Sikder ◽  
Mohammed Saiful Islam Bhuiyan ◽  
Ajay Ghosh ◽  
Farzana Rabin
Keyword(s):  
Contact Dermatitis ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Fungal Infections ◽  
Seborrheic Dermatitis ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Protective Measure ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Prick Test ◽  
Lichen Simplex Chronicus ◽  
Ship Breaking

Dealing with different toxic chemical and physical agents in ship scrapping activities of ship breaking workers make them vulnerable to suffer from different occupational health hazards including skin diseases. this cross sectional study was carried out in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka and a temporary health center established near the ship-breaking yards of Shitakunda, Chittagong to describe the frequency and pattern of skin diseases among ship-breaking workers in Bangladesh. Five hundred workers of ship breaking yards were included consecutively, history was taken and examined to diagnose skin diseases. Physical examination and laboratory tests (patch test, prick test, woods lamp test, microscopy and histopathology) were done where needed. Most (69.2%) of the workers were from the age group 15 to 62 years and 27.8% were <18 years. Only 27 (5.4%) had some sorts of training and 24.8% do not use any type of protective measure. At least one form of skin disease was found in 47.8% workers. Types of skin diseases were contact dermatitis (19.4%), scabies (15.8%), accidental cut/burn/scald (15.6%), fungal infection (dermatophytosis / pityriasis versicolor/ candidiasis) (10.6%), impetigo / pyoderma (9.8%), seborrheic dermatitis (9.6%), acne 7.2%, palmoplantar keratoderma 4.8%, glossitis/stomatitis/ chelitis 4.4%, lichen simplex chronicus 3.4%, urticaria 2.4% and psoriasis 1.2%. Contact dermatitis, scabies, accidental cut/burn/scald, fungal infections, impetigo/pyoderma, seborrheic dermatitis and acne are the common skin diseases among ship breaking workers. Ensuring adequate protective measures, awareness and training can control these skin diseases among ship-breaking workers.Bangladesh Med J. 2016 Sep; 45 (3): 147-150

scholarly journals Skin lesions associated with personal protective equipment in medical workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 122-131
Author(s):  
N. I. Galimova
Keyword(s):  
Contact Dermatitis ◽  
Personal Protective Equipment ◽  
Skin Disease ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Seborrheic Dermatitis ◽  
Skin Lesions ◽  
Protective Equipment ◽  
Skin Reactions ◽  
Occupational Contact Dermatitis ◽  
Allergic Contact

Aim. Analysis of the incidence of personal protective equipment (PPE)-associated dermatoses among medical workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.Materials and Methods. Screening of the papers indexed by PubMed, EMBASE, Google Scholar, eLibrary, and UpToDate databases, written in English and published from January 1, 2020 to October, 2021. The search keywords were: "medical workers", "skin", "dermatoses", "professional", and "personal protective equipment" in combination with "COVID-19" and "SARS-CoV-2".Results. Occupational contact dermatitis is responsible for 20% of all cases of contact dermatitis which accounts for 90% of all skin disease cases. During the COVID-19 pandemic, from 42.8% to 97.0% of medical workers reported about skin lesions provoked by prolonged wearing of PPE in combination with regular disinfection. About 61.7% of them noted the deterioration of a pre-existing skin disease, and 90.5% reported the appearance of new skin lesion symptoms associated with the PPE usage. The most common symptoms of skin lesions among medical workers were dryness, itching, burning, soreness, and skin rash. Irritant and allergic contact dermatitis, acne, rosacea, and seborrheic dermatitis were the most prevalent skin disorders among the interviewed medical workers. Risk factors for the development of PPE-associated dermatoses were the type and material of PPE, the duration of PPE wearing, and past medical history of skin diseases. Due to the increased incidence of PPE-associated dermatoses among the medical staff, some countries have developed recommendations on the prevention and treatment of undesirable PPE-associated skin reactions in medical professionals. Current research are focused on developing special tools and devices that would serve as a protective barrier between the skin and PPE, ameliorating the damaging effect of the latter.Conclusion. PPE-associated dermatoses are currently widespread among the medical workers, highlighting the need in novel materials for PPE manufacturing to minimise the risk of developing PPE-associated skin lesions.

Development of Dermatological Skin Disease Detection and Classification based on Wavelet and ANN

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Revati Kadu ◽  
U. A. Belorkar
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Skin Disease ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Screening Method ◽  
Phase Detection ◽  
Statistical Measures ◽  
The World ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
Wavelet Techniques

One of the most common and augmenting health problems in the world are related to skin. The most  unpredictable and one of the most difficult entities to automatically detect and evaluate is the human skin disease because of complexities of texture, tone, presence of hair and other distinctive features. Many cases of skin diseases in the world have triggered a need to develop an effective automated screening method for detection and diagnosis of the area of disease. Therefore the objective of this work is to develop a new technique for automated detection and analysis of the skin disease images based on color and texture information for skin disease screening. In this paper, system is proposed which detects the skin diseases using Wavelet Techniques and Artificial Neural Network. This paper presents a wavelet-based texture analysis method for classification of five types of skin diseases. The method applies tree-structured wavelet transform on different color channels of red, green and blue dermoscopy images, and employs various statistical measures and ratios on wavelet coefficients. In all 99 unique features are extracted from the image. By using Artificial Neural Network, the system successfully detects different types of dermatological skin diseases. It consists of mainly three phases image processing, training phase, detection  and classification phase.

Role of Self Help Groups A Study with Specific Reference to Vellore District

GIS Business ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 243-252
Author(s):  
Dr. M.A. Bilal Ahmed ◽  
Dr. S. Thameemul Ansari
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Role ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Self Help Groups

SHG is a movement which came to being in the early 1969. Prof. Muhammed Younus, a great economist of Bangladesh took initiative in setting up Self Help Groups and these SHGs were gradually spread all over the world. This social movement unites the people hailing from poor background. Those who are joining this group feel socially and economically responsible to one another. In India, there are some likeminded bodies and stakeholders of some government organizations play pivotal role towards the formation of SHG In this research article, role of SHGs in Vellore district is studies under the three dimensions of Cognitive role, leadership role and role towards entrepreneurship.

AI-Provided Instant Differential Diagnosis of Pemphigus Vulgaris and Bullous Pemphigoid: Qualitative Study (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyu He ◽  
Juan Su ◽  
Guangyu Wang ◽  
Kang Zhang ◽  
Navarini Alexander ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Early Diagnosis ◽  
Image Classification ◽  
Bullous Pemphigoid ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Pemphigus Vulgaris ◽  
Classification Model ◽  
Clinical Image ◽  
Clinical Images ◽  
Multimodal Classification

BACKGROUND Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) and bullous pemphigoid (BP) are two rare but severe inflammatory dermatoses. Due to the regional lack of trained dermatologists, many patients with these two diseases are misdiagnosed and therefore incorrectly treated. An artificial intelligence diagnosis framework would be highly adaptable for the early diagnosis of these two diseases. OBJECTIVE Design and evaluate an artificial intelligence diagnosis framework for PV and BP. METHODS The work was conducted on a dermatological dataset consisting of 17,735 clinical images and 346 patient metadata of bullous dermatoses. A two-stage diagnosis framework was designed, where the first stage trained a clinical image classification model to classify bullous dermatoses from five common skin diseases and normal skin and the second stage developed a multimodal classification model of clinical images and patient metadata to further differentiate PV and BP. RESULTS The clinical image classification model and the multimodal classification model achieved an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) of 0.998 and 0.942, respectively. On the independent test set of 20 PV and 20 BP cases, our multimodal classification model (sensitivity: 0.85, specificity: 0.95) performed better than the average of 27 junior dermatologists (sensitivity: 0.68, specificity: 0.78) and comparable to the average of 69 senior dermatologists (sensitivity: 0.80, specificity: 0.87). CONCLUSIONS Our diagnosis framework based on clinical images and patient metadata achieved expert-level identification of PV and BP, and is potential to be an effective tool for dermatologists in remote areas in the early diagnosis of these two diseases.

scholarly journals Redox Imbalance in T Cell-Mediated Skin Diseases

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saveria Pastore ◽  
Liudmila Korkina
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Atopic Dermatitis ◽  
Contact Dermatitis ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Redox Balance ◽  
Inflammatory Disorder ◽  
Chronic Inflammatory Disorder ◽  
Physical Chemical ◽  
Chemical Oxidants ◽  
Beneficial Outcome

The skin is permanently exposed to physical, chemical, and biological aggression by the environment. In addition, acute and chronic inflammatory events taking place in the skin are accompanied by abnormal release of pro-oxidative mediators. In this paper, we will briefly overview the homeostatic systems active in the skin to maintain the redox balance and also to counteract abnormal oxidative stress. We will concentrate on the evidence that a local and/or systemic redox dysregulation accompanies the chronic inflammatory disorder events associated to psoriasis, contact dermatitis, and atopic dermatitis. We will also discuss the fact that several well-established treatments for the therapy of chronic inflammatory skin disorders are based on the application of strong physical or chemical oxidants onto the skin, indicating that, in selected conditions, a further increase of the oxidative imbalance may lead to a beneficial outcome.

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