Exempel på psoriasis

• Other fungi and psoriasis can produce similar changes, but the diagnosis can be established by looking at nail clippings under a microscope.

• This enables them to biopsy areas where psoriasis will next appear.

• Psychological stress, distress and disability in patients with psoriasis : consensus and variation in the contribution of illness perceptions, coping and alexithymia.

• More work is required to determine whether the increased amount of these factors is specific to psoriasis.

• The differential diagnosis is from contact dermatitis or psoriasis which can sometimes be difficult to distinguish clinically.

• Psoriasis is thought to occur as a response to environmental triggers in genetically susceptible people.

• Although the aetiology of psoriasis is unknown, understanding has increased over recent years.

• Acitretin, the main metabolite of etretinate (a synthetic retinoid), is effective in some forms of psoriasis and has the additional benefit of a shorter half-life.

• Illness perceptions, coping and functioning in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and psoriasis.

• There are nearly 60 new medicines and some new indications for medicines on the list, with streptokinase, human soluble insulin and psoriasis treatments worth a particular mention.

• Our data suggest a possible relationship between oral contraceptive use and psoriasis, but this has not been reported by others and is probably a chance finding.

• Cyclosporin has been highly effective in the treatment of psoriasis.

• Some controlled drugs and antibiotics are included in the list, which specifies 30 new conditions including nausea and vomiting, emergency treatment of meningitis, thromboprophylaxis, cellulitis, poisoning, and psoriasis.

• Psoriasis has several distinct clinical types.

• They include people with muscular dystrophy, spina bifida, multiple sclerosis, kidney disease, continual skin disease like psoriasis, heart disease, chest disease—all sorts of disease.