J Dtsch Dermatol Ges
November 2024
Background: Teledermatology addresses the problems associated with the lack of specialists and the often long waiting time for an appointment with a dermatologist. The research project Online Dermatologist-AppDoc enables a fast anonymous expert opinion and was approved on 22 October 2018 by the Landesärztekammer Baden-Württemberg for 2 years as a model project.
Objectives: The aim of the present work is the presentation of the first real healthcare data for German teledematology within the framework of the external quality assurance of the model project Online Dermatologist-AppDoc.
A 50-year-old man with widespread manifestation of warts and distinct pruritus for the last 5 years was diagnosed with a reactivated human papillomavirus (HPV) infection by three, genetically verified types (6, 16, 18), which are included in the vaccine Gardasil®. Conventional treatment was not successful, but a rapid and significant reduction of the skin manifestation was observed after vaccination with Gardasil®. To what extent therapy-resistant infections with HPV can be influenced through an active HPV vaccination should be investigated in future trials.
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