Publications by authors named "A Pulido-Perez"
Purpose Of Review: There are aspects of skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) that remain unresolved, such as current numbers, classification criteria, how best to define severity and predict the outcome, what diagnostic tests to perform, what new treatment options are available, or what the duration of antibiotic treatment should be. We have reviewed the literature over the last 18 months to clarify these issues and provide our opinion.
Recent Findings: SSTIs are common and among the top 10 most frequent infections worldwide.
Background And Objective: The burden of nonvenereal infections in Spanish dermatology practice has not yet been evaluated. The aim of this study was to analyze the overall weight of these infections in outpatient dermatology caseloads.
Material And Methods: Observational cross-sectional study of diagnoses made by a random selection of dermatologists from the Spanish Association of Dermatology and Venereology (AEDV) working in outpatient dermatology clinics.
A new outbreak of monkeypox virus (MPXV) infection, a zoonotic infection endemic in Central and West Africa, is spreading throughout the world with new epidemiology and clinical features. Our aim was to characterize patients presenting to Dermatology emergency room with a MPXV infection between 15 May and 30 June 2022 in a tertiary hospital in Madrid, Spain. We collected 53 patients and describe their clinical, demographic and epidemiological characteristics and followed their evolution.
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- * Out of 320 sepsis episodes studied, 57 episodes (17.8%) showed secondary skin lesions, with purpura (including petechiae/ecchymosis) being the most common finding, particularly in cases of respiratory or skin-related sepsis.
- * The study indicates that skin involvement in sepsis is common, with a notable impact on hospital stay duration (averaging 38.58 days) and a mortality rate of 21.1%, highlighting the need for non-specialist clinicians to recognize these signs.