Skin Manifestations in Psoriatic and HS Patients in Treatment with Biologicals during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, a global public health emergency, has changed dermatology practice and daily routine in just under two years. Much has been written in the literature about COVID-19-associated skin manifestations. Nevertheless, much less has been written regarding skin manifestations in patients affected by severe immune-mediated skin diseases, e.g., psoriasis and hidradenitis suppurativa, undergoing biological treatment during the COVID-19 outbreak. Thus, the aim of this article is to provide the reader with an overview of the cutaneous manifestations during the COVID-19 pandemic in this subset of patients.

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Life Lessons of the Pandemic ”Covid - 19”

International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences ◽

10.26452/ijrps.v11ispl1.2814 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽

pp. 469-471 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bhagyashri Vijay Chaudhari ◽

Priya P. Chawle

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Review Article ◽

Public Health Emergency ◽

The Novel ◽

Global Public Health ◽

Strange Situation ◽

Republic Of China ◽

Lifetime History ◽

The People ◽

Life Lessons

“A lesson learned the hard way is a lesson learned for a lifetime.” Every bad situation hurts; however, it sure does teach us something a lesson. In the same manner of a new lesson for Human lifetime, history is observing 'The Novel COVID-19 ’, a very horrible and strange situation created due to fighting with a microscopic enemy. WHO on 11 February 2020 has announced a name for new disease as - 19 and has declared as a global public health emergency and subsequently as pandemic because of its widespread. This began as an outbreak in December 2019, with its in Wuhan, the People Republic of China has emerged as a public health emergency of international concern. is the group of a virus with non-segmented, single-stranded and positive RNA genome. This bad situation of pandemic creates new scenes in the life of people in a different manner, which will be going to be life lessons for them. Such lessons should be kept in mind for the safety of living beings and many more things. In this narrative review article, reference was taken from a different article published in various databases which include the view of different authors and writers on the "Lessons to be from Corona".

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South-east Asian Zika virus strain linked to cluster of cases in Singapore, August 2016

Eurosurveillance ◽

10.2807/1560-7917.es.2016.21.38.30347 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 21 (38) ◽

Cited By ~ 39

Author(s):

Sebastian Maurer-Stroh ◽

Tze-Minn Mak ◽

Yi-Kai Ng ◽

Shiau-Pheng Phuah ◽

Roland G Huber ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Phylogenetic Analysis ◽

Virus Strain ◽

Zika Virus ◽

East Asian ◽

Public Health Emergency ◽

Global Public Health ◽

Genome Sequences ◽

First Case ◽

Large Outbreak

Zika virus (ZIKV) is an ongoing global public health emergency with 70 countries and territories reporting evidence of ZIKV transmission since 2015. On 27 August 2016, Singapore reported its first case of local ZIKV transmission and identified an ongoing cluster. Here, we report the genome sequences of ZIKV strains from two cases and find through phylogenetic analysis that these strains form an earlier branch distinct from the recent large outbreak in the Americas.

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COVID-19: Avoiding a second tragedy in a tuberculosis burdened country

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease ◽

10.4081/monaldi.2020.1338 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 90 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Siddharth Raj Yadav ◽

Rohit Kumar ◽

Nitesh Gupta ◽

Pranav Ish ◽

Shibdas Chakrabarti ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽

The Elderly ◽

World Health Organisation ◽

Public Health Emergency ◽

World Health ◽

Special Population ◽

Global Public Health ◽

Immunodeficiency Virus ◽

The World

To the EditorNovel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was first notified in December 2019 from Wuhan, China. Now, it has spread rapidly and has been declared a pandemic affecting over 200 countries with widespread morbidity and mortality. It has been postulated that the most vulnerable population are the elderly, people living in crowded areas, children and immune-compromised individuals, such as people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The correlation of tuberculosis (TB), HIV and malnutrition are well documented and hence, people with tuberculosis should be considered as special population in this pandemic. TB is an ancient disease among humans recorded as far back as seventy thousand years which was declared a global public health emergency in 1993 by the World Health Organisation (WHO). India has the highest TB burden in the world.

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Polio, conflict and distrust: a global public health emergency

Medicine Conflict & Survival ◽

10.1080/13623699.2014.926445 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 143-145 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Simon Rushton ◽

Maria Kett

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Public Health Emergency ◽

Global Public Health

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Therapeutic Plasma Exchange Using Convalescent Plasma Replacement Therapy in Severe COVID-19 Infections: A Potential Therapeutic Option

EMJ Innovation ◽

10.33590/emjinnov/20-00183 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 78-81

Author(s):

Joy Varghese ◽

Pushkala Subramanian ◽

Venkataraman Jayanthi

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Plasma Exchange ◽

Inflammatory Markers ◽

Therapeutic Option ◽

Public Health Emergency ◽

Therapeutic Plasma Exchange ◽

Cytokine Storm ◽

Global Public Health ◽

Plasma Therapy ◽

Key Factor

Currently, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV-2), is a major global public health emergency. Cytokine storm is a key factor and plays a major role in disease severity and clinical outcome. Recently, the literature reveals the use of therapeutic plasma exchange to reduce the inflammatory markers. Evidence also exists for the use of convalescent plasma therapy in patients with severe COVID-19. This brief communication explores the advantages on therapeutic plasma exchange with convalescent plasma in patients with moderate-to-severe COVID-19.

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How to Overcome Stress during COVID19 Pandemic

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Economic Issues ◽

10.32674/ijeei.v4i1.41 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 75-78

Author(s):

PUSHPA PRIYA

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Stress Response ◽

Public Health Emergency ◽

Adverse Impact ◽

Global Public Health ◽

Suicidal Thoughts

Abstract The epidemic COVID-19 is a global public health emergency causing an adverse impact on people’s lives from different perspectives. The misconception about COVID19 has contributed to physical and psychological diseases among people that sometimes even leads to the higher risk of suicide. Stress endurance varies from person to person; some person can manage it and some cannot. Some therapies can address this problem with solution. The aim of this write up is to discuss stress response and how to manage stress response. In addition to this, it also discusses some causing factors behind suicidal acts; and the ways to overcome suicidal thoughts during pandemic.

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Skin manifestations in spondyloarthritis

Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease ◽

10.1177/1759720x20975915 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

pp. 1759720X2097591

Author(s):

Katharina Meier ◽

Alexandra Schloegl ◽

Denis Poddubnyy ◽

Kamran Ghoreschi

Keyword(s):

Skin Diseases ◽

Joint Involvement ◽

Skin Disorders ◽

Psychosocial Burden ◽

Cutaneous Manifestations ◽

Skin Manifestations ◽

Plaque Type ◽

Interdisciplinary Field ◽

Clinical Presentations ◽

Physical Impact

Spondyloarthritides (SpA) like psoriatic arthritis, axial spondyloarthritis/ankylosing spondylitis, reactive arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)-associated SpA can present with characteristic skin manifestations. These SpA-associated skin disorders may precede joint involvement, reflect a loss of efficacy of a current systemic treatment or can even be treatment associated. Cutaneous manifestations in SpA not only add additional morbidity with physical impact but also impose a psychosocial burden on affected patients. Psoriasis (PsO) – the main skin disease in SpA – has a variety of clinical presentations, including plaque-type PsO, inverse PsO, guttate PsO, erythrodermic PsO, nail PsO and pustular types. SpA associated with IBD presents with neutrophilic and granulomatous skin disorders, including pyoderma gangrenosum, hidradenitis suppurativa and cutaneous Crohn’s disease. Reactive arthritides has a favourable prognosis and may feature keratoderma blenorrhagicum or balanitis circinatum as typical skin manifestations. Immunologically, SpA-associated skin diseases share interleukin (IL)-17 and IL-23 dysregulation but show distinctive genetic and immunological profiles. Therefore, they vary in their treatment responses to targeted therapies with biologicals or small molecules. In this review, we highlight the clinical presentation of skin manifestations in SpA and discuss therapeutic approaches in this interdisciplinary field.

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Introduction

Pandemics, Publics, and Narrative ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190683764.003.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

Mark Davis ◽

Davina Lohm

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Public Health ◽

Lived Experience ◽

Narrative Theory ◽

Public Health Emergency ◽

Swine Flu ◽

Global Public Health ◽

The Social ◽

To Come ◽

Empirical Material

This chapter sets the scene for the book by introducing the significance of narrative and its mediations for the experience of a global public health emergency. It provides some necessary detail on the swine flu pandemic of 2009 to help the reader situate the empirical material to come in following chapters. The chapter also introduces “Cameron’s infection story” to explain how we use narrative in this book and make links with narrative theory in the social sciences. Cameron’s story also helps to locate the book in the lived experience of everyday people in 2009 and foregrounds the focus of this book on the stories of individuals affected in different ways by the pandemic.

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A Cross Sectional Study to Evaluate Cutaneous Manifestations in Diabetic Patients and their Correlation with Sugar Control at Tertiary Care Center in Western Maharashtra

VIMS Health Science Journal ◽

10.46858/vimshsj.8304 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 104-108

Author(s):

Dr. Ashutosh Chate ◽

Dr. Amrut Swami ◽

Ms. Sakshi Rane ◽

Dr. Ramesh Gosavi

Keyword(s):

Skin Diseases ◽

Care Center ◽

Tertiary Care ◽

Diabetic Patients ◽

Age Group ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Cutaneous Manifestations ◽

Skin Manifestations ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Study Participants

Introduction: Diabetes is a leading chronic disease in world and number of cases are significantly increasing each year in India also. Out of many associated conditions, skin involvement in diabetes also needs to be evaluated. We conducted this study to study relation between the sugar control and skin manifestations in diabetic patients. Methodology: We studied total 100 diabetic patients visiting our dermatology OPD over a period of 1 year from January to December 2020. All skin diseases in diabetic patients were studied. We studied association of these diseases with sugar control in our study participants. Results: Mean age of our study participants was 63.48 ± 18.12 years, Majority of the males were from the age group of 61 and above, 34 (62.96%) while majority of the females were from the age group of 41-60 years 25 (54.35%). Majority of the patients had diabetes for 5-10 years (52%) followed by more than 10 years (36%) and less than 5 years in 24% cases. Out of 100 participants, 44% had controlled diabetes while rest 56% had uncontrolled diabetes with HbA1c > 6. We observed a significant difference in skin manifestations of controlled and uncontrolled sugars in diabetic patients. (p = 0.007). Conclusion: From this study, we conclude that the skin is involved in diabetes quite often. Early diagnosis and treatment of skin manifestations in diabetic patients is important to reduce unwanted morbidity and further complications in the diabetic patients.

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