Content - Volume 100, July

We performed this study because most melanomas are diagnosed by the patients themselves or by their partners or relatives; they alone can describe its history. We feel that this paper is very important due to the fact that its supports the consistency of patient’s description of their primary melanoma and underlines the potential value of patient-reported kinetics as a criterion for medical decision, that could dynamically complement its objective pathological analysis, otherwise static at a single time point. Moreover, it provides some hints improving community education campaigns.

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A Nodular Pink Lesion with an Uncommon Diagnosis: A QuizMost melanomas are diagnosed by the patients themselves or by their partners or relatives; they alone can describe its history. We designed a prospective cross-sectional study to describe patients’ perception of morphology, growth pattern and kinetics of their primary melanoma over 1 mm in thickness before resection. Patients were interview ...

Benzathine penicillin G (BPG) is the reference treatment for early syphilis, but shortages have recently been reported, highlighting a need for the validation of alternative treatments. The aim of this study was to evaluate the genomic resistance of Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum (TPA) to macrolides and doxycycline in France. Swabs from genital, anal, oral and cutaneous lesions were obtain ...

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Chronic diseases not only have a direct influence on patients’ quality of life, but can also affect the life of family members. The aim of this study was to create the Polish language version of a questionnaire estimating impact of disease on quality of family life: the Family Reported Outcome Measure – 16 (FROM-16). A standard forward and backward translation procedure was used to convert the ...

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Little is known about psoriasis in geriatric patients, whereas treating this growing population can be challenging due to comorbidities, comedication and physical impairments. To compare disease and treatment characteristics of psoriasis patients ≥ 65 years old with patients < 65 years old, a self-assessment survey was sent to all members of the Dutch Psoriasis Association (n = 3,310). I ...

Psoriatic nail symptoms are frequent in psoriasis, affecting up to 80% of patients. Therapy responses to nail symptoms are often limited. In this multicentre non-interventional prospective study, 267 patients with nail involvement were treated with adalimumab for a period of 24 months. The efficacy of adalimumab for nail psoriasis was evaluated and predictors for better response were identified. F ...

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A total of 185 elderly Japanese patients with mild to severe dementia were surveyed on itch, using multiple methods of evaluation including self-evaluation of itch conducted by patients as well as evaluation of scratching behavior and scratching marks on the body surface conducted by others. As a result, 36.8% self-evaluated that they were suffering from itch, whereas 53.5% were found to scratch. ...

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Shame has been registered as a part of psychosocial distress in patients with psoriasis. This study investigated 44 patients with psoriasis and 88 age- and sex-matched individuals without skin disease. Skin shame, multifarious expressions of shame, psychological symptoms, overall health, dermatological quality of life, disease burden and disease severity were measured. Higher levels of skin shame ...

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Itch and pain are important attention-demanding sensations that allow adaptive responses to potential bodily harm. An attentional bias towards itch and pain stimuli, i.e. preferential attention allocation towards itch- and pain-related information, has been found in healthy, as well as patient groups. However, it remains unclear whether attentional bias for itch and pain differs from a general bia ...

Pruritus in atopic dermatitis has been studied extensively; however, evaluation of skin pain has been very limited. The aim of this study was to evaluate the presence, frequency and characteristics of skin pain in patients with atopic dermatitis. A survey was conducted of a representative sample of 5,000 18–80-year-old individuals selected from the French population according to sex, age, geogra ...

To evaluate cellular response to oncostatin M (OSM) in comparison to interleukin (IL)-31, we analyzed monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) as a readout for OSM responses with and without IL-4, IL-13, anti-OSM receptor β monoclonal antibody KPL-716, and anti–IL-31 receptor α antibody in human epidermal keratinocytes and human dermal fibroblasts in vitro. In human epidermal keratinocytes, ...

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