Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted healthcare from physical in-person patient visits to teleconsultations in order to curtail the spread of this virus. Dermatology, being a visual science, lends itself amenably to teleconsultation.
Objective: This study was performed to assess the basic dermatological diseases which are more easily diagnosable and managed through teleconsultation, distinguishing them from diseases for which a face-to-face consultation may be a better option and to delineate the factors affecting the image quality which is the cornerstone of a teledermatology consultation.
Role of flow-mediated dilatation (FMD) testing in the assessment of the macrovascular dysfunction in systemic sclerosis (SS) and correlation of FMD values with disease severity. Twenty-five patients of SS and 25 healthy age-matched controls were recruited. Modified Rodnan skin thickness score (MRSS) was used for skin thickness assessment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS
November 2022