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Objective: A limited set of common skin problems leads to a disproportionate percentage of consultations that, in addition to the economic burden and cost, will lead to a loss of physician time and confidence in the necessity and importance of counseling, but so far, written documentation. There is no information about the frequency of various skin diseases in hospitalized patients. Therefore, our goal is to investigate the frequency of skin diseases in dermatological consultations requested from other departments of teaching hospitals in Mashhad, Iran. Material and Methods: This cross-sectional was done over six months. We used basic information, including demographic information, cause of hospitalization and primary underlying disease, the reason for consultation, description of skin lesion, diagnosis of the requesting physician, the importance of counseling or the impact of counseling on the treatment process, the preclinical results and the final diagnosis by dermatologist and entered into the checklist. Results: There were 200 patients in this study. The most common skin diseases in the requested consultations were a drug reaction, psoriasis, vasculitis, and dermatitis. Most specialists seeking counseling were internal medicine, rheumatology, and neurology. The consulting physician’s diagnosis was correct in 52 patients. According to the dermatologist, 40 consultations were very important, 129 consultations were important and 31 consultations were insignificant. Conclusion: Our study showed that dermatology consultation was effective in 84.5% of cases in the diagnosis and treatment of patients, and only in 26% of cases, the diagnosis of primary care specialists was correct. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The aim of this study is to evaluate the clinical, demographic, and diagnostic characteristics of pediatric patients consulting the dermatology department. Methods: Patients who were consulted to the dermatology department from pediatric clinic of XX Hospital between January 2021 and August 2021 were scanned retrospectively. The demographic data of the patients, the pediatric department requesting consultation, their complaints at admission, the reasons for asking for consultation, and the diagnoses they received as a result of the consultation were recorded. Results: A total of 296 patients, 150 (50.7%) females and 146 (49.3%) males, with a median age of 5.5 years (1.5-10.5 ) were evaluated. The outpatient clinic were seen to have made the most requests for consultation. The most frequent complaints on presentation were seen to be redness of the skin in 168 (56.8%) cases and itching in 36 (12.2%). The five most common diagnoses made as a result of the consultation were unspecified dermatitis in 47 (15.9%) cases, scabies in 34 (11.5%), insect bite in 17 (5.7%), atopic dermatitis in 13 (4.4%), and seborrheic dermatitis in 13 (4.4%). When the diagnoses were examined according to the age groups, unspecified dermatitis was usually seen in the 0-2, 6-11, and 12-18 years age groups and insect bite was more common in the 3-5 years age group. Conclusion: The establishment of effectively functioning consultation mechanisms not only facilitates a correct diagnosis for the patient and appropriate treatment, but also can shorten the length of hospital stay for pediatric patients and can reduce economic costs.

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Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical, demographic, and diagnostic characteristics of pediatric patients consulted to the dermatology department. Methods: Patients who were consulted to the dermatology department from pediatric clinic of Konya City Hospital between January 2021 and August 2021 were scanned retrospectively. The demographic data of the patients, the pediatric department requesting consultation, their complaints at admission, the reasons for asking for consultation, and the diagnoses they received as a result of the consultation were recorded. Results: A total of 296 patients, 150 (50.7%) females and 146 (49.3%) males were evaluated. Median age of patients was 5.5 (1.5-10.5) years. The outpatient clinic was seen to have made the most requests for consultation. The most frequent complaints on presentation were redness of the skin in 168 (56.8%) cases and itching in 36 (12.2%). The five most common diagnoses made as a result of the consultation were unspecified dermatitis in 47 (15.9%) cases, scabies in 34 (11.5%), insect bite in 17 (5.7%), atopic dermatitis in 13 (4.4%), and seborrheic dermatitis in 13 (4.4%). When the diagnoses were examined according to the age groups, unspecified dermatitis was usually seen in the 0-2, 6-11, and 12-18 years age groups and insect bite was more common in the 3-5 years age group. Conclusion: The establishment of effectively functioning consultation mechanisms not only facilitates a correct diagnosis for the patient and appropriate treatment, but also can shorten the length of hospital stay for patients and can reduce economic costs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Amaç: Çocukluk çağındaki deri lezyonları, deri hastalığı nedenli veya diğer hastalıklara bağlı olabilir. Lezyonların tanısı, erken ve etkin tedavisi için önemlidir. Bu çalışmanın amacı dermatoloji kliniğine tanı ya da tedavi amacıyla danışılan çocuk hastalardaki deri lezyonlarının değerlendirilmesidir. Gereç ve Yöntem: Ocak 2014-Aralık 2017 tarihleri arasında çocuk sağlığı ve hastalıkları kliniğinden dermatoloji kliniğine yapılan konsültasyonlara ait hasta verileri retrospektif olarak tarandı. Verilerde eksiklik bulunmayan hastalar çalışmaya dahil edildi. Bulgular: Değerlendirmeye alınan 500 hastanın 226’sı (%45,2) kız, 274’ü (%54,8) erkekti. Hastaların yaş aralığı bir gün ile 17 yıl arasında değişmekte olup, yaş ortalaması 5,14±4,7 yıl idi. Hastaların 425’i (%85) ayaktan başvuran poliklinik hastası, 75’i (%15) yatan hastaydı. Yüz otuz hastada (%26), klinikler arası tanı uyumu gözlenirken, 73 hastada (%14,6) kliniklerin tanıları farklıydı. Hastaların 297’sinin (%59,4) konsültasyon istem notunda tanı/öntanı yoktu. En sık danışılan hastalıklar sıklık sırasına göre, ekzemalar, enfeksiyonlar, böcek ısırığı reaksiyonları, kserosis kutis (deri kuruluğu) ve tırnak hastalıklarıydı. Sonuç: Jeneralize döküntü ile seyreden hastalıklar ve ekzemaların ayırıcı tanısı ve tedavisine yönelik bilgi düzeyi artırılmalıdır. Böcek ısırıkları hem lokalize hem de jeneralize döküntülerin ayırıcı tanısında düşünülmelidir.

Objective: Dermatological complaints can be seen frequently in hospitalized patients. During their inpatient, new dermatological lesions may develop, as well as exacerbate dermatological diseases that known before. Thus, the importance of inpatient consultations is increasingly. There are a limited studies in the literature that evaluating the dermatology consultations requested during hospitalization of pediatric patients. The purpose of our study was to describe the dermatology consultations in hospitalized pediatric patients. Material and Methods: A total of 137 patients consulted to dermatology clinic from the pediatric service over a period of four years were included in this study. The data were collected retrospectively from records. Results: Consultations were requested from general pediatric service. The most common primary diagnosis of inpatient pediatric patients was lung disease. The most common dermatological diagnosis in 137 patients were allergic disease followed by skin infections. Skin biopsy was performed on 28 patients by dermatology to aid for diagnosis. In evaluating the consistency between the pre-diagnosis of our clinic before the consultation and the dermatology diagnosis after the consultation, 32 patients were diagnosed differently. Conclusion: Skin lesions are frequently encountered in patient follow-up by pediatric health and disease specialists. At the same time, a significant part of the patient group of dermatologists is pediatric patients. Therefore, the cooperation of the two clinics is important in terms of diagnosis and treatment efficiency. One of the ways to create a working environment and cooperation that contributes to education between pediatrics and dermatology clinics is request a consultation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Patients who come to the emergency department with dermatological complaints are generally referred to polyclinics. This practice increases the rate of correct diagnosis and treatment. It also reduces the workload of the emergency service. In this article, we wanted to examine the patients who applied to the emergency department and referred to our outpatient clinic but had any dermatological emergencies. Material and Methods: Patients between August 2018 and February 2020 were retrospectively evaluated from computer records and outpatient doctor records. In diagnoses were divided groups like urticaria, drug eruption, viral rash diseases, dermatitis, insect bites, infective conditions and pruritus. Results: 61.1% of the patients referred from the emergency service to our outpatient clinic were female and 38.9% male. Total number of patients was 72. The mean age was 39.94±14.10 (18-68) years. Twenty-six (36.1%) patients urticaria, 12 (16.7%) patients dermatitis, 12 (16.7%) patients pruritus, 7 (9.7%) patients infective conditions, 6 (8.3%) patients drug eruption, 5 (6.9%) patients had viral eruptions diseases and 4 (5.6%) patients were diagnosed with insect bites. The youngest group was the patients diagnosed with insect bites with an average of 32.75±15.34 years and the oldest group was the group diagnosed with viral rash with an average of 52.00±14.68 years. The average complaint duration of all patients was 2.47±1.85 (1-10) days. Conclusion: It may be useful to refer patients to dermatology outpatient clinics who are not dermatological emergencies in during working hours. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pregnancy is a physiological state that is associated with various physiological skin changes and specific dermatoses. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the dermatologic problems of pregnants followed by obstetrics and gynecology clinic by analyzing dermatology consultations, retrospectively. The data, including dermatology consultations requested by obstetrics and gynecology clinic for pregnants between September 2011-May 2017 were screened. Sixty-one patients without any missing information were included in the study. The mean age of 61 cases was 30.66±6.61 years (19-43 years). Their gestational weeks varied between 5, and 40 weeks and 29 patients (47.5%) were primigravid, 32 patients (%52.5) multigravid and five patients (%8.2) were in postpartum period. The reason for asking consultations for two pregnants was the physiological change of pregnancy. Sixteen patients (26.2%) had pregnancy-specific dermatosis; 11 patients diagnosed with polymorphic eruption of pregnancy, four patients with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy and one patient had pemphigoid gestationis. The pregnants with the diagnosis of gestational dermatosis were in their third trimesters (n=14) or postpartum periods. Forty-five pregnant patients or those in their postpartum period for whom consultations were requested (75%) had itching with or without a rash. There were three pregnant women who used drugs in the C, D and X pregnancy categories for consultation because of unplanned pregnancy and drug use. Pruritis was detected as the most frequent complaint. Infection and drug use that could affect maternal and infant health were attracting attention among the reasons for consultation request. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]