Common Skin Conditions as a cause for admission
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Transcript Common Skin Conditions as a cause for admission
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Drug reaction(SJ/TEN syndrome)
Blistering disorders(Pemphigus group, Bullous
pemphigoid ,CBDC, dermatitis herpatiformis)
Erythroderma(generalised exfoliation),Pustular
Psoriasis, Reiter’s disease
Lepra reactions
Herpes Zoster
SLE, Dermatomyositis, Scleroderma
Acute Urticaria
Non healing ulcers(Pyoderma
Gangrenosum,Vasculitis,Venous Ulcer)
Most often elicited by drugs and less so idiopathic.
Common drugs –sulfur group,penicillin group,
antitubercular drugs,anti inflammatory drugs,
phenytoin, carbamazepine,allopurinol,nevirapine,etc
The disease is preceded by a nonspecific prodrome
with fever ,myalgia ,malaise and headache.
Skin lesions develops abruptly are maculopapular
rash with purpuric lesions and followed by
vesiculobullous lesions which rupture leaving behind
erosion and ulceration.
Bullous lesions may occur in oral, conjuctival
,genital and anal mucosa.
Mucocutaneous hemorrhagic crusting (eg. Lips)
is the most characteristic feature.
Complications
Septicemia
Blindness
Acute renal failure
Gastrointestinal bleeding
Omission of causative drug(give list of drugs to be
avoided )
Supportive Therapy
Maintainance of vital parameters(routine check-up for
temperature,BP,pulse and urine output chart)
Daily nursing care
nutritional care
Maintenance of fluid and electrolytes
Dressing of ulcers
medical Therapy
Steroids
Intravenous immunoglobulin
Antibiotics, Antifungal
It includes pemphigus, bullous pemphigoid and
CBDC, dermatitis herpatiformis.
Autoimmune conditions
Pemphigus vulgaris
Common in 20-40 years
It may start with oral lesions.
Patient develops crops of vesiculobullous lesions
just like burns blisters on normal skin which
rupture and produced erosions and ulcers.
These erosions continue to spread at the periphery without
any tendency of healing spontaneously and often bleed with
minor trauma.
Erosions are being covered with dirty reddish or brownish
crusts, depending on pressense of bleeding or infection or
both.
If more than 25% body area involved,fluid loss,electrolyte
imbalance and protein loss.
Erosions and ulcers may produce secondary infection which
lead to septicemia.
Invesigations
Routine – Hb,TC,DC,PC,RFT,LFT
Skin biopsy
Direct and indirect IF
Good nursing care includes daily dressing.
Oral and genital mucosa may require special nursing
care.
Vital data monitoring(routine check-up for
temperature,BP,pulse and urine output chart)
Nutritional care
Maintenance of fluid and electrolytes
Specific and supportive therapy
Systemic Steroid (DCP pulse therapy)
Immunosuppresants (cyclophosphamide, azathioprine)
Biologics (Rituximab)
Antibiotics, Antifungal
Multivitamines, Calcium
Observation of steroid induced side effects
Common
in 40-60 years
Most common sites are flexures,proximal
extremities and trunk.
Mild to moderate itching is present
Subepidermal large and tense bullae on a
background of erythema and edema rupture
to form erosions which have a tendency to
heal spontaneously.
Mucosa are not involved.
Routine-Hb,TC,DC,PC,RFT,LFT
Skin
biopsy
Direct Immunofluorescence
Good nursing care includes daily dressing.
Vital data monitoring(routine check-up for
temperature,BP,pulse and urine output chart)
Nutritional care
Maintenance of fluid and electrolytes
Specific and supportive therapy
Corticosteroids,antibiotics and other antiinflammatory drugs
Immunosuppresants (cyclophosphamide,
azathioprine)
Plasmapheresis,IVIg
Multivitamines, Calcium
Inflammatory skin disease affecting more than 90%
of the body surace.
Generalised erythema with exfoliation of skin.
It is associated with burning,irritation,itching or a
sense of tightness.
It is chronic relapsing condition with various
underlying etiology like psoriasis,eczema,
lymphoma,drug induced,contact dermatits,
congenital disorder like icthyosis,PRP etc.
Due to exfoliation of skin there are chances for
electrolyte imbalance and hypoproteinemia.
Peripheral vasodilation leads to Congestive cardiac
failure.
Routine
– Hb, TC,DC,PC,LFT,RFT etc
PS for atypical cells
Skin biopsy
Chest Xray
Maintainance of vital parameters(routine check-up for
temperature,BP,pulse and urine output chart)
Daily nursing care
Nutritional care
Maintenance of fluid and electrolytes
Emollients and moisturizer application
Emollient bath
High protein diet
Topical therapy
Systemic therapy is given according to etiology
In psoriasis-immunosuppresants required.
In contact dermatitis and eczema-steroids required.
If drug induced-avoidance of causative drug
Crops
of pustules based on erythema.
Distributional subtypes include:
Localised palmoplantar pustular psoriasis.
Generalised pustular psoriasis:
• This is the life threatening variant, the
patient being febrile and toxic as waves of
pustules based on tender erythema appear
all over the body.
• Hypoproteinemia and hypocalcemia are
common.
Routine
– Hb, TC,DC etc
Skin biopsy
Chest X-ray
Maintainance of vital parameters(routine check-up
for temperature,BP,pulse and urine output chart)
Daily nursing care
nutritional care
Maintenance of fluid and electrolytes
Topical Therapy
Emollients
Steroids
Calcipotriol
Systemic Therapy
Methotrexate
PUVA therapy
UV-B Phototherapy
Steroids
Retinoids
Cyclosporin
It
is chronic inflammatory disease,having
recurrent episodes of arthritis,
urethritis,conjuctivitis and mucocutaneous
eruptions.
It usually occurs in a genetically susceptible
person,following an infection of the
genitourinary tract due to chlamydiae and
ureaplasma or following an attack of dysentry
due to shigella, salmonella, campylobactor
and yersinia.
Mucocutaneous lesions are seen in 50% cases
and are prone to develop at skin,genital or
oral mucosa and nails.
Skin
lesions are seen in 30%cases and
classical lesions are known as keratoderma
blenorrhagica which commonly affects the
palms,soles and toes.
Lesions start as erythematous macules which
turn into vesicles, followed by formation of
pustules.
When pustules are dried up, papules and
plaques, covered with thick crusts are
developed.
At palms and soles, lesions are covered with
mollusk-like thick crust.
It is a viral disorder caused by reactivation of
Varicella zoster virus that is lying dormant in
sensory ganglia.
Reactivation may be triggered by trauma,stress
or due to old age.
It is characterised by dermatomal involvement of
the skin in which pain is followed by vesicular
eruption in particular dermatome.
It can be generalised or multidermatomal in
immunocompromised person.
It is most common in 2nd and 3rd decade of life.
•Require admissions in
-Ophthalmic zoster
-Ramsay-Hunt syndrome
-Disseminated zoster
•Patient may develop Post herpatic neuralgia
after 3 months.
Maintainance of vital parameters(routine check-up
fortemperature,BP,pulse and urine output chart)
Daily nursing care
Nutritional care
•Antiviral (acyclovir,valcyclovir)
•Antibiotics,anti inflammatory drugs
Leprosy
is a slowly progressive
immunologically mediated disease,caused by
M.Lepra,mainly affecting skin and peripheral
nerves.
Classification
Lepromatous
Borderline
Tuberculoid
Indeterminate
Borderline and lepromatous both group
develop reaction either.
Lepra
reaction is the development of
different sets of clinical manifestations other
than existing leprosy lesions or sudden
changes of existing lesions,due to
hypersensitivity reactions.
Types
Type I lepra reaction is caused by type IV
hypersensitivity reaction(delayed
hypersensitivity reaction)
Type II lepra reaction is caused by type III
hypersensitivity reaction(immune complex
mediated hypersensitivity reaction)
It
occurs in all form of borderline
leprosy(BT,BB and BL)
1) reversal reaction
Patient regains immunity following
treatment or spontaneously
Existing skin lesions become tender,
erythematous, edematous and scaly.
General symptoms are absent
Peripheral nerves become swollen and
tender with increment of anesthesia
It
occurs in BL and LL with high bacterial
index.
Prominent general features-fever, arthritis,
lymphadenitis, edema of the limbs or face.
Sudden onset of crops of tender,
erythematous nodules known as erythema
nodosum leprosum (ENL)
Common sites-face distal upper limbs and
proximal lower limbs
NSAIDs
HCQs
Steroid
MDT
Urticaria is commonly a type I hypersensitivity
reaction(IgE mediated immediate hypersensitivity)
of the skin to a variety of exogenous and
endogenous antigens.
Lesions begin as pruritic ill defined erythematous
macules or patches which rapidly develop to form
the typical lesions(‘wheals’) that are pale red
edematous papules or plaques with a brighter
periphery.
Rhinitis,difficulty in breathing,sensation of
heaviness in chest,whezing and abdominal pain may
accompany the skin lesions and are indications for
urgent treatment to avoid the complication of
laryngeal edema.
Should
be attended to immediately,since this
is usually a manifestation of a systemic Type
I hypersensitivity response and may be
accompanied by laryngeal edema and
bronchospasm.
IM antihistamines(inj.avil) should be given
initially .
If no relief after 1-2 hours,IM or IV
hydrocortisone.
If no response,IM or SC adrenaline(0.5 ml of
1:1000 solution)brings about prompt relief.
All
are autoimmune inflammatory
connective tissue disorders.
LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS manifests on skin as
Discoid lesions
Butterfly rash
Oral ulcers
Photosensitivity
Alopecia
Raynaud’s phenomenon
Localised Scleroderma
Indurated dyspigmented plaque with atrophy
DERMATOMYOSITIS
Proximal muscle weakness is the most
common presenting feature.
Heliotrope rash
Gottrons papules
Gottrons sign
Shawl’s sign
Confluent macular violaceous erythema
Calcinosis in muscls and no terminal
resorption of tips of digits(in contrast with
systemic sclerosis)
It
is a common connective tissue disorder
with increased amount of dermal collagen
Skin is dry and tight
Microstomia and facial disfigurement with
retraction of lips, perioral furrow and beaked
nose are often present.
Telangiectasia commonly is seen at lips and
palms.
Digital ulcers develop due to
trauma,ischemia and fibrosis.
pu
Ulcer
is a break in the skin or mucous
membranes with associated necrosis(cell
death). An ulcer heals with scarring
Common Causes:
Venous
Neuropathic(including due to diabetes or
leprosy)
Arterial
Vasculopathic(most important being
pyoderma gangrenosum)
Primarily
sterile inflammatory neutrophilic
dermatosis characterised by recurrent very
tender cutaneous ulcerations with
mucopurulent or hemorrhagic
exudate,undermined bluish borders and
surrounding erythema.
Variants
Ulcerative
Bullous
Pustular
Superficial granulomatous
Total count/DLC(Lymphocyte count)/ESR
Anemia
Increased lymphocyte count and raised ESR for
tuberculosis
FBS/PPBS
VDRL
Urine for sugar
Pus/discharge for culture and
sensitivity(inflammed and spreading)
Mantoux test
Chest Xray(tuberculous ulcers,metastatic
deposits)
Biopsy(malignancy
from edge and
surrounding healthy tissue)type/invasiveness/differentiation)
X-ray of bone and joints
New bone formation(gummatous ulcers and
sabre tibia)
Contrast radiography-Arteriography
Imaging techniques-Doppler(venous and
arterial)
Systemic
Glucocorticoids(0.5-1mg/kg of
prednisolone)
Methyl prednisolone
Immunosuppresants
Sulfasalazin(1-4gm)
Clofazimine
Colchicine
Infliximab