Joel Thomas Mitchell Bamford

This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows: To assess the effects and safety of topical and oral agents for pityriasis versicolor.

This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: To assess the effects and safety of topical and oral agents for pityriasis versicolor.

Eczema is a chronic inflammatory skin condition, which usually develops in early childhood. Many children outgrow this disorder as they reach secondary school age, and although It may improve with age, there is no cure. Constant itch makes life uncomfortable for those with this condition, no matter what age they are, so it may have a significant ef...

A 2006 article published in the International Journal of Dermatology reported that oral zinc sulfate 100 mg three times daily was associated with improvement in the severity of facial rosacea (Sharquie et al. 2006; 45: 857-861). The current study was undertaken to further assess the role of zinc in the management of rosacea. This was a randomized,...

Little is known about how individuals with a predisposition for rosacea appear in childhood. This retrospective, matched control, longitudinal study examined the relationship between childhood stye and adult rosacea. The records of the Rochester Epidemiology Project were examined to identify patients who received care for stye or blepharitis betwee...

There are no standardized measures for the severity of rosacea. To determine what clinical signs correlate best with global severity of rosacea, and to examine inter-rater reliability. Methods Four clinicians each made 82 assessments of rosacea patients. Each assessment used 60 0-to-10 Likert-like scales for the signs of rosacea. Subjects also asse...

Twenty-four patients with erythrotelangiectatic or papulopustular rosacea were treated with 0.1% tacrolimus topical ointment in a 12-week open-label trial. Erythema was significantly improved in both rosacea subtypes (P < .05). There was no decrease in the number of papulopustular lesions. Side effects were consistent with those on the tacrolimus t...

Assessment of severity is essential in the clinical care of rosacea patients and in the research on rosacea. To determine the range of methods used to assess rosacea severity in clinical trials. The medical literature from 1965 through 2001 was searched for rosacea clinical trials using MEDLINE and published citations. Forty-seven articles were rev...

Rosacea is a clinical pattern beginning and evolving in the genetically susceptible individual in response to a host of exposures. It produces a variety of clinical presentations, which vary over time and with age. Recently, many specific mediators of rosacea development have been described. A primary genetic cause for rosacea is suggested as singl...

To evaluate the clearing and intensity of symptoms of rosacea 60 days after the treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection. Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial. The dermatology section of a large multispecialty clinic in the North Central United States. Men and women older than 25 years with active signs of rosacea who teste...

Rosacea is a common dermatological condition, for which no therapy is 100% effective. Evaluations generally compare one type of treatment with controls.1,2 Little information comparing alternative forms of treatment for rosacea is available. One of the issues in evaluating different approaches to managing the disease is the subjectivity involved in...

This study was designed to look at the effect of evening primrose oil (linoleic and gamma-linolenic acids) as an oral supplement for patients with atopic eczema. We used a double-blind, blocked crossover design with random assignment of patients to treatment groups. We used Wilcoxon's signed-ranks method of comparing changes during the trial. We ob...

One week of nightly application of sulfur-salicylic acid shampoo as a lotion was evaluated for the treatment of tinea versicolor. One half of the randomly allocated patients used the active preparation and the other half used a bland oil-in-water lotion as a placebo. Three months after completing treatment, nineteen of twenty-two using sulfur-salic...

• Ten patients with chronic psoriasis were treated twice weekly with oral gastrointestinal dialysis in an attempt to clear psoriatic skin lesions with this method alone. In a fasting state in the morning, each patient drank from 3 to 6 L of an electrolyte solution containing 220 mmole/L of mannitol during three hours. The procedure was well tolerat...

To the Editor.— Although tinea versicolor can be successfully treated with several preparations, some agents have shortcomings, which warranted trial of another preparation.Sodium thiosulfate is slow acting and often ineffective. Tolnaftate requires prolonged use for widespread lesions.1 Selenium sulfide (2.5%) shampoo is usually effective,2-4 but...