Dermatological lesions of patients with inflammatory bowel disease - single center study

Abstract

Introduction Inflammatory bowel diseases affect approximately 10 million people in the world and a third of them develop dermatological lesions during their illness. This work was carried out to verify the incidence of this type of lesions. Materials and methods: 120 patients with a diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease were included in this study and documentation of the dermal lesions presented in their disease was carried out. Results: The most common age of presentation of dermal lesions was between 15 and 25 years with an incidence of approximately 70%, the most frequent was erythema nodosum with a 53% incidence followed by pyoderma gangrenosum present in 29%; Most lesions were chronic in 58% of cases and occurred mainly in patients with mild outbreaks in 79%, followed by patients with severe outbreaks in 18%. Conclusions: These dermal lesions are more frequent in young patients with a mild outbreak and were very rare in those patients with inactive disease.