(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.
Urticaria
Definition:
(n.) The nettle rash, a disease characterized by a transient eruption of red pimples and of wheals, accompanied with a burning or stinging sensation and with itching; uredo.
Example Sentences:
(1) This initial observation of release of eosinophil chemotactic factor of anaphylaxis in vivo along with histamine assigns the mast cell a central role in cold urticaria.
(2) We report an episode of hypotension, tachycardia, bronchospasm and urticaria following application of a non-ionic contrast medium (Iopamidol) during isoflurane anaesthesia.
(3) This suggests that common food additives are seldom if ever of significance as precipitating factors in chronic urticaria or atopic dermatitis.
(4) An almost equal sex distribution was found in chronic urticaria (51.9% female).
(5) The antimalarial drugs can clear up skin lesions in patients with polymorphous light eruption and solar urticaria who cannot obtain relief with topical sunscreens and in some patients with porphyria cutanea tarda.
(6) Both before and after application of the stimulus, the walls of the superficial dermal vessels of the patients with dermographism were thinner and contained less extracellular matrix material than vessel walls of the patients with cold-induced urticaria.
(7) Localized heat urticaria is a rare disorder, in which the nature of the mediator is not fully established.
(8) (2) One case (1.3%) of minor degree of urticaria was found as a side effect, and one case each of eosinophilia and elevation of GOT, GPT and Al-P was observed as abnormal laboratory value.
(9) The drug was withdrawn in 6 patients--lack of response in one, thrombocytopenia in one, urticaria in one, rash in one, and granulocytopenia in 2.
(10) A young woman with diabetes mellitus developed chronic urticaria after changing from isophane been insulin suspension to isophane beef-pork insulin suspension.
(11) A frequent cause of contact urticaria is skin exposure to the common stinging nettle (Urtica dioica).
(12) Different reaction types seem to have been responsible for the occurrence of the urticaria.
(13) The second-generation H1-receptor antagonists are replacing the first generation H1-receptor antagonists in the symptomatic treatment of allergic rhinoconjunctivitis, and in relieving pruritus in patients with urticaria.
(14) These results indicate that a 10 day trial of both H1 and H2 antihistamines may be useful in patients with chronic urticaria resistant to all other standard treatment modalities.
(15) A case is here reported of a 35 year old woman with a history of urticaria following anti-tetanus serum and penicillin injections, who frequently ate exotic fruit, and who was intolerant to alcohol.
(16) 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).
(17) Histamine release from peripheral blood basophils challenged with C5a, f-met-peptides and calcium ionophore was studied in patients with cold urticaria before and after exposure to low environmental temperatures.
(18) Many solar urticaria patients may benefit from the use of antihistamines.
(19) The predominant signs were facial edema, flushing, urticaria, bronchospasm, tachycardia, and hypotension.
(20) The association of chronic urticaria with C3NeF without clinical and biological signs of membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis and partial lipodystrophy has not to our knowledge been reported before.