Document 0272
 DOCN  M9440272
 TI    The spectrum of HIV related skin diseases in an Irish population.
 DT    9404
 AU    Healy E; Meenan J; Mulcahy F; Barnes L; Department of Dermatology, St.
       James's Hospital, Dublin.
 SO    Ir Med J. 1993 Nov-Dec;86(6):188-90. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/94148649
 AB    A prospective study was carried out between January 1988 and January
       1990 in St. James's hospital, Dublin, which is the chief referral centre
       for the HIV population in Ireland. Patients were routinely referred from
       the genitourinary medicine department to the dermatology clinic for a
       full dermatological assessment which was carried out by one physician
       (LB). The patients were not preselected on the basis of a skin
       complaint. The study aimed to detect the prevalence of skin disease
       amongst this HIV group of patients and to compare them with an age and
       sex matched group of normal controls. There were 92 patients in each
       group, with 62 intravenous drug users (IVDU), 21 homosexuals, eight
       haemophiliacs and one heterosexual in the HIV positive group. A wide
       spectrum of skin disorders were seen, with a significantly higher
       prevalence of seborrhoeic dermatitis, xerosis, Kaposi's sarcoma, oral
       candidiasis, folliculitis, molluscum contagiosum, onychomycosis,
       gingivitis, perianal herpes simplex and genital/perianal warts in the
       HIV positive group compared to controls.
 DE    Adolescence  Adult  Bisexuality  Candidiasis, Oral/COMPLICATIONS
       Case-Control Studies  Comparative Study  Female  Hemophilia
       Homosexuality  Human  HIV Infections/*COMPLICATIONS  HIV
       Seropositivity/*COMPLICATIONS  Ireland  Male  Middle Age  Molluscum
       Contagiosum/COMPLICATIONS  Onychomycosis/COMPLICATIONS  Prevalence
       Prospective Studies  Sarcoma, Kaposi's/COMPLICATIONS  Skin
       Diseases/*COMPLICATIONS  Skin Neoplasms/COMPLICATIONS  Substance Abuse,
       Intravenous  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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