Dermatological Diseases During Pregnancy

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Physiological skin changes are common during pregnancy in addition to cutaneous disease specific to pregnancy. Dermatoses specific to pregnancy are important to recognize because they are intensely pruritic or painful to mother and may pose significant risk to patients, her fetus or both. AIM: To study the dermatological diseases in pregnancy. SETTINGS & DESIGN: Study was undertaken on pregnant women who visited the dermatology OPD of the Christian medical college and Hospital, Ludhiana. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Screening for cutaneous disorders was undertaken in two hundred pregnant women attending the dermatology OPD in Christian medical college and hospital. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS USED: Was done by using SPSS version. RESULTS: Pruritus was present in 61.5% patients. Specific pregnancy dermatoses were seen in 33% and included prurigo gestationis, pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy (PUPP) and pruritus gravidarum. Sexually transmitted diseases accounted for 10.5%; condyloma accuminatum was the commonest STD. Commonest dermatological disorder observed was eczema with 10.5% of cases. CONCLUSION: Pregnant women are prone to suffer from a wide range of dermatological and sexually transmitted diseases. Some of these are distressing to mother, others may associated with significant fetal risk.

The effect of letrozole on liver function and some biochemical parameters in rats

“…In particular, LDH is the main activator of the pyruvate-tolactate converting enzymatic reaction. LDH is typically released from necrotic cells (Chaudhary and Chauhan, 2015;Faloppi et al, 2016). In our study, it was determined that the amount of LDH increased with liver-specific enzymes in the LTZ toxicity group.…”