Background: The recently updated dosing recommendation for adalimumab for psoriasis states that patients with inadequate response to adalimumab every other week (EOW) after 16 weeks may benefit from an increase in dosing frequency to 40 mg every week (EW). Objectives: This study...
Aims: To highlight signs and symptoms of suspected spider bites and to evaluate local and systemic manifestations to suspect the more prevalent type of spider bites if Loxoscelism or Latrodectism, also to widen knowledge of physicians about not well known disease in Libya. Study...
Background: A lot has been written on post adolescent acne and its effect on quality of life in women but not in men. The differences if any between post adolescent acne in men and women is not known. The aim of this study is to compare the clinical features and quality of life a...
Background: Documentations on pattern of acne and quality of life are mostly in adolescents and adult females. Female acne is said to be different from adolescent acne. It is not known if male acne is different. The aim of this study was to document the pattern of male acne vulga...
Background: Clinical diagnosis of several skin diseases is mostly supported by skin biopsies, a follow up on the clinicopathological correlation to improve the accuracy in diagnosing skin diseases. Aims: The aim of this study is to correlate the clinical diagnosis with histopatho...
This is the second part of the article, titled "looking beyond the cutaneous manifestations of Covid 19 Part 1: The Clinical Spectrum – A Review”, which is exclusively relegated to the pathology and pathogenesis aspects. The cutaneous manifestations of Covid 19 are classified int...
Background: Psoriasis is a chronic, life-long inflammatory disorder that primarily affects the skin. The etiopathogenesis of psoriasis remains elusive. The activation of the NF-ҡB/Rel transcription family, by nuclear translocation of cytoplasmic complexes, plays a critical role i...
Ever since the first case of Covid 19 pneumonia-like condition was reported from Wuhan, China, researchers were seriously engaged in uncovering evidence of the involvement of organs other than the lung, like kidney, heart, brain, liver and gut. From the dermatologists, world over...
Transdermal drug delivery is the safest and convenient delivery system for numerous drugs. Different types of transdermal patches are used for specific targeted drug delivery. Conventional transdermal patches have disadvantage that drugs with larger molecular size have difficulty...
Clinical data of patients with wounds attending government hospitals in Ondo state, Nigeria was investigated. It was observed that most patients with wound that visited government hospitals in Ondo state were 45-54 years age group with percentage of 41.0%. The most gender that vi...