Dermatology and Cosmetics
Year:2013 | Volume:4 | Issue:1|Papers Count:10

Background and Aim: The change of the age pattern for using cosmetics in Iran is an important issue. The objective of this study was to evaluate factors affecting the cosmetics usage by the girls under 20 years old.Methods: This survey was done in Yazdanshahr NajafAbad (Isfahan) using of measurement method and questionnaire instrument in the year 2011-2012. Three hundred indivisuals were randomly selected from 1800 female students in high school, secondary school and per-university levels.Results: Most of the respondents named their close friends and relatives as their model of makeup. 31.7% of the girls have set satellite channels as their model and 7.7% used internet sites. 44.3% of the girls agreed with the effect of relation with opposite gender on the amount of cosmetics usage. There is a meaningful relation between age, multimedia consumption, marriage status, social reliability and the tendency to the cosmetics usage.Conclusion: The factors influencing the cosmetics usage include population characteristics, socio-economic base, multimedia consumption, relations, family and reliability which explain almost 55% of the changeability of the variances.

Background and Aim: Psoriasis is a common chronic inflammatory skin disease. The risk factors of metabolic syndrome have been reported with greater frequency in patients with psoriasis. In this study, we aimed to evaluate these risk factors and compare them with normal population, as the control group.Methods: In this case-control study, 55 patients with psoriasis were studied from 2011 to 2012 and 55 matched (for sex and age) persons were considered as control group. Age, gender, body mass index, systolic and diastolic blood pressures, smoking, alcohol consumption, type of disease, and blood levels of triglyceride, total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, and fasting sugar were evaluated in both case and control groups and compared.Results: Our findings showed that levels of TG (P=0.005,OR: 1.02, 95%CI: 1.0-1.34) and LDL (P=0.03, OR: 1.04, 95%CI: 1.0-1.09), the frequency of smoking (P=0.02, OR: 2.2, 95%CI: 1.1-3.2), and the mean of systolic blood pressure (P=0.004, OR: 1.07, 95%CI: 1.02-1.33) were significantly higher in psoriatic patients, compare with control group.Conclusion: Higher frequency of hypertension and lipid abnormalities in psoriatic patients may enhance the risk of cardiovascular diseases in them. Therefore, we recommend to check all patients with psoriasis, regardless of their disease severity, for serum lipid profiles and blood pressure. In addition, we strongly recommend giving up smoking, as a part of psoriasis treatment.

Background and Aim: Pemphigus is one of the most common types of autoimmune blistering disease that requires systemic immunosuppressive therapy. Immunosuppressive therapy has improved the disease outcome in recent decades, but long-term use of them has side effects. Recently, it has been tried to evaluate immunosuppressive drugs with less side effects. One of them is mycophenolate mofetil. The aim of this study was to evaluate of therapeutic efficacy of this drug in the patients with refractory pemphigus vulgaris.Methods: Three hundred files of patients with pemphigus vulgaris were reviewed and among them 28 patients who had received mycophenolate mofetil due to resistance to treatment were entered to this study. The data were obtained from patients’ files and were analyzed using Kendall's tau-c correlation, Mann-Whitney and ANOVA tests.Results: Male to female ratio was 1.8:1 with an average age of 43.3±13.6 year. Twenty-eight cases of pemphigus vulgaris were treated receiving 2gr/day mycophenolate mofetil+1mg/kg/day prednisolone. Remission occurred after 3 months. Seventeen patients (10 men and 7 women) had complete remission. There was no significant association between gender and treatment response (P=0.58). There was no significant association between mean age of treated patients and untreated patients with treatment response (P=0.77). Also, there was no significant association between severity of mucosal (P=0.80) and severity of skin involvement with treatment response (P=0.80). Ten patients who received mycophenolate mofetil more than 12 months had treatment response to mycophenolate mofetil and they did not have any relapse in the follow up period.Conclusion: Mycophenolate mofetil is effective and safe as an adjuvant therapy in patients with pemphigus vulgaris especially in refractory pemphigus. Initiation of the therapeutic effect is slow.

Background and Aim: Thalassemia is one of the most common single gene disorder that results from decrease or absence of globulin chain(s) synthesis. Repeated blood transfusion is required for prevention of severe anemia and related side effects, but it is associated with other complications such as cutaneous lesions and mucosal manifestations. This study conducted to assess the frequency of cutaneous and mucosal manifestations in patients with beta thalassemia.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 300 patients with beta major thalassemia in Zahedan. Data were obtained from medical records and questionnaires as well as through physical examination of patients. The data were statistically described and tested.Results: The mean age of patients was 17.9±6.3 years and 64.3% of patients were men and 35.7% were women. Among cutaneous lesions, freckles were the most common (70.7%) and the rarest one was peri orbital pigmentation (0.3%). Gingivitis (41.7%) and longitudinal lines on nails (72%) were the most common mucosal and nail manifestations.Conclusion: Since cutaneous and mucosal manifestations are very common among patients with beta major thalassemia, regular dermatology follow up of these patients is recommended.

Background and Aim: Cutaneous tuberculosis (TB) is a relatively uncommon form of extra pulmonary TB. Even in countries where TB still commonly occurs, cutaneous TB is rare. In our country accurate statistics of the forms of cutaneous tuberculosis are not available. The aim of this study was to assess the frequency of cutaneous tuberculosis during the years 1997 to 2012 in Gorgan, Iran.Methods: In this retrospective cross-sectional study, patients affected with cutaneous tuberculosis referred to 5 Azar Hospital in Gorgan from April 1997 to September 2012 were studied. Data collected from the medical records of patients were statistically described and analyzed.Results: In this study, 30 cases of cutaneous TB were found that 18 (60%) of them were women. The disease was most commonly observed in age group of 21 to 40 years. Lupus vulgaris (18, 60%), papulonecrotic tuberculid (6, 20%) and scrofuloderma (3, 10%) were the most common types of cutaneous tuberculosis in these patients.Conclusion: Lupus vulgaris is the most frequent form of cutaneous tuberculosis in Gorgan.

Great progress in optics, electronic engineering, and computer science provide an opportunity to diagnosis of skin diseases, estimating effectiveness of drugs and skin care products using non-invasive, non-destructive methods of analysis. Also many noninvasive methods using analytic devices are developed to assessment of the outcomes of dermatologic surgeries on malignant skin tumors. The aim of this article is to review advanced methods for skin analysis on human’s skin such as magnetic resonance imaging and time domain reflectometry. Many kind of interesting applications are defined for using these methods especially in cosmetic pressures.

There are different ways to treat local obesity and cellulite including invasive and noninvasive methods. Due to the fact that noninvasive methods have significantly lower rates of adverse effects, they become more popular. One of these methods is acoustic wave therapy (AWT) or shock wave therapy (SWT). In addition to treating cellulite, SWT has been found useful for some other conditions. In this paper, we briefly introduce SWT and describe the protocol and results of treating cellulite and local obesity using CallactorÒ SC1 device (Storz Medical, Switzerland) in three females with normal body mass indices.