What's the difference between eczema and psoriasis?
Eczema
Definition:
(n.) An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Example Sentences:
(1) We observed a significant content of ELCF in three of seven patients with eczema prior to patch testing.
(2) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
(3) A case of disseminated Herpesvirus hominis (type I) in a 23-year-old White man with widespread eczema is reported.
(4) A 34-year-old female operating room nurse developed hand eczema to natural latex.
(5) There was a tendency for serum levels of IL-2 and receptor IL-2 to decrease, especially in patients with atopic eczema.
(6) Viral warts and eczema were, as in 1981, the second and third most common diagnostic categories amongst new patients.
(7) In children, manifestations of IgE-mediated food allergy (often in association with other immune mechanisms) include self-limiting and immediate reactions (e.g., urticaria, wheeze) and chronic diseases (food-sensitive enteropathies, eczema).
(8) Of subjects who had rhinitis, 38% also had atopic eczema, while rhinitis--as the only symptom--was found in 8.8%.
(9) Basic physiological characteristics were examined in the uninvolved skin of 39 patients with hand eczema and in 39 healthy controls.
(10) Its associations with sex and with prior and concurrent hay fever and eczema were examined in a nationally representative sample followed from birth to 23 years of age (British 1958 birth cohort).
(11) small children, urticaria factitia, eczema) tests with two or three grasses or a grass-mixture are sufficient.
(12) A majority of the patients presented with eczema of the hands, face or the lower legs.
(13) If there is a primary dysfunction of the immune system in atopic eczema it might be reflected in altered capacity to generate delayed-type hypersensitivity.
(14) Although eczema occurred predominantly in infants with higher social level the respiratory tract symptoms were reported more frequently in children from working class families.
(15) In 43 the primary eczema was on the hands, in 38 under costume jewellery, suspenders, ect.
(16) The results suggest that reduced numbers of circulating NK cells and pre-NK cells account for the depressed level of NK cell activity in subjects with severe atopic eczema.
(17) Similar trends were noticed in the occurrence of eczema.
(18) The antigen-presenting and lymphocyte stimulating functions of Langerhans cells as effector cells in allergic contact eczema are proved.
(19) 2 children presented a classical picture of the Wiskott-Aldrich's syndrome followed by eczema, recurrent infections and trombocytopenia.
(20) On the basis of their symptoms, it is suggested that infantile eczema is not an essential sign of the disorder, whereas the high frequency of hernia, strabism and upward slant of the palpebral fissures is underestimated in the literature.
Psoriasis
Definition:
(n.) The state of being affected with psora.
(n.) A cutaneous disease, characterized by imbricated silvery scales, affecting only the superficial layers of the skin.
Example Sentences:
(1) We report the results of a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of acitretin (Soriatane) in 15 patients with moderate to severe psoriasis.
(2) These findings suggest that Sch 40120 is a potent anti-inflammatory agent that may be particularly useful in the treatment of inflammatory diseases such as psoriasis in which leukotrienes appear to be major mediators of the pathological symptoms that characterize the disease state.
(3) Extracorporeal photopheresis (ExP) was administered every other week in an outpatient setting to four patients with chronic refractory psoriasis vulgaris without arthropathy.
(4) Utilizing the bilateral comparison technique in 30 hospitalized patients with chronic stable plaque-type psoriasis vulgaris, we closely monitored the clinical responses to ultraviolet radiation (Westinghouse fluorescent FS40 bulbs, 290--400 nm) and a variety of tar preparations and lubricant vehicles in combination and separately.
(5) It seems that the addition of liquid tar elevates the reaction threshold to dithranol in hypersensitive patients with psoriasis.
(6) The animal model of psoriasis was effectively treated by bimolane, both systemically and topically, and also by parenteral methotrexate and topical betamethasone valerate.
(7) A family history of psoriasis was obtained in 26% of first-degree relatives and 13% of second-degree relatives.
(8) Regarding psoriasis, emotional factors have a strong correlation with onset and flare-ups.
(9) Indeed, CsA may well represent a major advance in the understanding and treatment of psoriasis.
(10) These data demonstrate that monocytes from subjects with psoriasis are altered and suggest an apparent inherent metabolic disorder.
(11) Forty patients with psoriasis treated with methotrexate (MTX) are reviewed.
(12) In previous investigations we observed an increase of growth hormone (HGH) in the blood serum of patients suffering from various clinical forms of psoriasis.
(13) We conclude that there appears to be no benefit from exceeding a concentration of 5% crude coal tar in yellow soft paraffin in the treatment of patients with psoriasis and that the plateau in the dose-response curve for the action of crude coal tar in psoriasis begins at a point between 1 and 5%.
(14) Increasing evidence suggests an immunoregulatory function of the potent steroid hormone 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25(OH)2D3) which has been successfully applied for treatment of psoriasis.
(15) This group includes the typical ankylosing spondylitis as well as atypical spondylopathies such as those occurring in psoriasis, Reiter's disease and chronic inflammatory enteropathies, which attack mainly the spine and secondarily the peripheral joints.
(16) In this prospective study, 51 patients suffering from psoriasis and ichthyosis were treated with acitretin for 2 years.
(17) The object was to study the influence of concentration, contact time, psoriasis type, self-treatment at home, frequency of application, ointment base, and the admixture of corticosteroids on the efficacy of "minutes therapy."
(18) Recent epidemiological studies have suggested that psoriasis represents a risk factor for thrombotic vascular diseases.
(19) Psoriasis must be considered in the differential diagnosis of papulosquamous disorders in infants.
(20) These data suggest that platelet activation occurs in psoriasis, and that release of inflammatory and mitogenic compounds by activated platelets may play a role in the pathophysiology of psoriasis.