Acquired reactive perforating collagenosis associated with sick euthyroid syndrome.

Acquired reactive perforating collagenosis is a rare skin disorder associated with several systemic diseases, particularly diabetes and chronic renal failure. A 52-year-old Saudi female patient with a known case of diabetes mellitus type II, chronic renal impairment, hypertension, peripheral vascular disease, congestive heart failure, stroke and left hemiplegia presented with multiple pruritic skin eruption on the trunk and extremities. We believe that this is the first case of acquired reactive perforating collagenosis in association with sick euthyroid syndrome to be reported.

Pyoderma among Hajj Pilgrims in Makkah.

Objective: Bacterial skin infections have been considered as a possible health problem of the Hajj pilgrims. Significant increase in the rate of resistance to commonly used antibiotics against gram positive organisms has been observed. The present study was planned to obtain the microbiological profile of bacterial skin infections and their susceptibility to antimicrobials.

Psoriasis in the eastern Saudi Arabia.

Objective: To determine the percentage occurrence, demographic and clinical features of psoriasis in adult patients at King Fahd Hospital of the University, Al-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Methods: The medical records of all the adult patients with psoriasis were analyzed from January 1991 to December 1994 at the dermatology clinic, King Fahd Hospital of the University, Al-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Results: A total of 263 adult psoriatic patients were studied with the percentage occurrence of 5.