Long-term Mortality among Patients with Chronic Ulcers.

Chronic ulcers cause a significant burden to patients and society. This study evaluated long-term mortality among patients with chronic ulcers diagnosed at a dermatology clinic between 1980 and 2010. The mortality risk and causes of death of 3,489 patients with ulcers were compared with a matched reference group of 10,399 individuals, and factors associated with increased mortality risk were examined.

Bioimpedance method for monitoring venous ulcers: Clinical proof-of-concept study.

Evaluation of wound status is typically based on means which require the removal of dressings. These procedures are often also subjective and prone to inter-observer bias. To overcome aforementioned issues a bioimpedance measurement-based method and measurement system has been developed to evaluate the state of wound healing.

Bioimpedance measurement based evaluation of wound healing.

Objective: Our group has developed a bipolar bioimpedance measurement-based method for determining the state of wound healing. The objective of this study was to assess the capability of the method.

Methods: To assess the performance of the method, we arranged a follow-up study of four acute wounds.

Disseminated Legionella pneumophila infection in an immunocompromised patient treated with tigecycline.

We describe an immunocompromised patient with disseminated Legionella pneumophila infection. A chronic leg ulcer was probably the port of entry for the infection. Treatment required several operations and prolonged antimicrobial treatment.

A retrospective study of the probability of the evolution of parapsoriasis en plaques into mycosis fungoides.

Parapsoriasis en plaque has been suggested to be an early manifestation of mycosis fungoides (cutaneous T-cell lymphoma). We explored the disease course of patients with small plaque or large plaque parapsoriasis in a 26-year retrospective cohort analysis of 105 parapsoriasis patients, who were clinically and histopathologically followed up in Helsinki and Tampere University Hospitals. Eventual later cancers of these patients were verified from the Finnish Cancer Registry.

Epidemics due to imported syphilis in Finland.

Background: Russia and other states of the former Soviet Union experienced a huge increase in syphilis beginning in the early 1990s. At first these epidemics were not well known in neighboring countries such as Finland.

Study Design: In 1995 the incidence of syphilis in Finland doubled to 3.