Publications by authors named "Mireia Esquius Rafat"
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- - A study evaluated the effectiveness and safety of dupilumab for treating bullous pemphigoid in elderly patients, with a focus on those who typically have other health issues that make standard treatments unsuitable.
- - The results showed that 53.4% of patients achieved complete remission within 4 weeks and 95.7% by week 52, with a significant reduction in itchiness and a dramatic decrease in the need for corticosteroids.
- - The treatment was found to be safe, with most adverse events being mild, and factors like shorter disease duration and exclusive skin involvement were linked to better treatment responses.
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- Dermatological conditions pose significant health challenges, prompting the use of machine learning (ML) for diagnostic support in identifying skin diseases, particularly skin cancer.
- This study validated an ML model by assessing its accuracy in diagnosing 44 skin diseases and comparing results with those of General Practitioners (GPs) and teledermatologists in a real-life patient setting.
- While the overall accuracy of the ML model (39%) was lower than that of GPs (64%) and dermatologists (72%), it showed improved performance with certain trained diagnoses, demonstrating comparable Top-3 and Top-5 accuracy rates with clinicians.
Background: Dermatological conditions are a relevant health problem. Each person has an average of 1.6 skin diseases per year, and consultations for skin pathology represent 20% of the total annual visits to primary care and around 35% are referred to a dermatology specialist.
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