Erythroderma: A clinical study of 97 cases

Abstract

Background: Erythroderma is a rare skin disorder that may be caused by a variety of underlying dermatoses, infections, systemic diseases and drugs.

A Clinico - Pathological Study of Erythroderma in a Tertiary Care Centre in Assam, India

“…The male female ratio of 4.2:1 correlated with that found by Botella Estradas et al 7 (4:1). In this study, scaling was found in 100% of the cases, which is similar to the observation made by Chaudhary and Gupte, 4 Bharatia PR and Joshi, 8 Akhyani M et al, 9 and Sudho R et al, 10 in their respective studies. Erythema was found in 100% cases in the present study which is similar to the observation made by Hulmani et al, 11 Jowkar F et al, 12 and Akhyani M et al, 9 in their respective studies.…”

Clinical profile, etiology and histopathology of patients with erythroderma in South India

“…Pruritus has been reported as a predominant symptom in many of the studies including those by Khaled, Sellami and Fazaa (56%), Jowker, Aslani and Shafiee (64.7%), Akhyani and Ghodsi (97.5%). [6][7][8] Sudden progression within a day was seen in drug induced erythroderma as observed in other studies. In patient with erythroderma secondary to lymphoma, it took more than 1 month for generalised spread of the disease.…”

“…[9][10][11] Sigurdsson and Toonstra found edema in 54% of patients, Khaled, Sellami and Fazaa in 23%, Akhyani and Ghodsi in 14%. 2,6,8 In our study 92% of the patients had edema which is much higher compared to other studies. Malnutrition, which is prevalent in our population, might have contributed to the edema in such large number, since hypoalbuminemia was also seen in 67%.…”

“…Except that eosinophilia was found in 66% of drug induced erythroderma cases, the use of laboratory evaluation to differentiate the various causes of erythroderma has generally not been helpful in this study as in various other series. 8,9,12,13 In this study, 84% (30/36) of the patients had pre-existing dermatoses, 42% constituted by psoriasis and 42% by eczemas. Among these, 90% (27/30) had aggravation of their disease prior to exfoliation.…”

A Clinico-Epidemiological Study of Erythroderma in a Tertiary Care Center in Jharkhand

“…Comparable to previous studies, a preexisting dermatoses was present in 76.5% of the patients [9,10]. Hasan et al reported 32% patients with idiopathic erythroderma [11] while in our study, it was only 2.9%.…”