Syphilis and COVID-19: Changing trends.

Background: There is a change in the pattern and prevalence of acquired syphilis due to better awareness, surveillance, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment in India in recent years. However, restrictive measures for COVID-19 may produce different effects on incidence.

Aims And Objectives: We aimed to study the changing trend of acquired syphilis in relation to COVID-19 outbreak in a tertiary care hospital in North India.

Clinical and epidemiological trends in childhood leprosy: A 20-year retrospective analysis from a tertiary care hospital in Jammu, North India.

Background Slightly more than half the total number of childhood leprosy cases worldwide are from India. Aim To analyze the clinical and epidemiological trends of childhood leprosy over 20 years in a tertiary care hospital. Methods We retrieved the medical records of all children less than 15 years of age registered in the leprosy clinic between April 1998 and March 2018.

Profile of Defaulters and Pattern of Treatment Default among Leprosy Patients at a Tertiary Care Hospital: A 10-Year Analysis.

Background: The focus of leprosy control programs worldwide today is the WHO multidrug therapy which adequately cures the disease. Incomplete treatment puts not only the patient but the entire community at risk which may further jeopardize the leprosy control program.

Objective: To study the magnitude of treatment default among leprosy patients, its trend in the last 10 years, and association with clinicodemographic variables.

A Cross-Sectional Study of Clinico-etiological Profile and Associated Comorbidities in Indian Patients of Pigmented Purpuric Dermatoses.

Background: Pigmented purpuric dermatoses (PPDs) are a group of chronic benign vascular disorders with varied clinical presentation. The etiopathogenesis of the condition largely remains unknown with a paucity of clinico-epidemiological and/or clinico-etiological studies.

Objective: To study the clinico-epidemiological pattern, etiological factors and associations of PPD and correlate them with its severity in a set of Indian patients.

Cardiovascular and Metabolic Risk Assessment in Patients with Lichen Planus: A Tertiary Care Hospital-based Study from Northern India.

Background: The association between lichen planus (LP) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors has been demonstrated in previous reports. However, the evidence of CVD risk factors in Indian patients with LP is limited.

Objective: To compare CVD risk factors in LP patients and healthy controls.

Trends and patterns of leprosy over a decade in a tertiary care hospital in Northern India: A retrospective analysis.

Background: Leprosy was declared to be eliminated from India in 2006, but recent reports point to an increase in newly detected cases despite the overall fall in prevalence.

Aim: This study aimed to analyze the patterns and trends of epidemiological and operational indicators of leprosy at a tertiary care center in northern India over a decade.

Methods: This is a 10-year retrospective study from 2005 to 2014 conducted at the urban leprosy centre (ULC) of the Department of Dermatology, Venereology, and Leprology, Government Medical College, Jammu (J and K), India.

Serum Vitamin D Levels and Alopecia Areata- A Hospital Based Case-Control Study from North-India.

Background: Alopecia areata (AA) is an autoimmune disease which is characterized by hair loss and affects any hair-bearing area. Low levels of Vitamin D have been implicated in a variety of autoimmune diseases. This study was conducted to assess the levels of Vitamin D in patients with AA and its correlation with severity, pattern, and extent of the disease.

Clinical Response with intralesional Amphotericin B in the treatment of old world cutaneous leishmaniasis: a preliminary report.

Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a vector-borne tropical disease caused by a heterogeneous group of protozoan parasites that belong to the genus Leishmania. With an annual incidence of 1.5 million new cases, CL is a global health concern mainly in developing countries.

A new focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Jammu division of Jammu and Kashmir State, India.

Background: Cutaneous leishmaniasis in India is mainly confined to the deserts of Rajasthan; some cases have been reported from the dry north-western half of the Indo-Gangetic plain, including Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi and Varanasi.

Aims: To highlight a new focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Jammu division of Jammu and Kashmir State, previously a non-endemic area. This report presents the clinico-epidemiological and investigative results of 120 new cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis detected between November 2012 and October 2013.

A study of cutaneous adverse drug reactions at a tertiary center in Jammu, India.

Aim: The aim was to study various morphological patterns of cutaneous adverse drug reactions (CADRs) and identify the culprit drug or drugs by establishing a causal link using Naranjo adverse drug reaction probability scale.

Materials And Methods: The study was carried out between November 2010 and November 2011 at the Department of Dermatology, Government Medical College, Jammu. A total of 150 patients with CADR reporting to the dermatology department or referred from other departments were evaluated.

Lichen scrofulosorum: an important marker of occult tuberculosis.

Lichen scrofulosorum is a tuberculid that is usually seen in children or young adults. Although a rare occurrence, this tuberculid is an important marker of occult tuberculosis, which may not be detected otherwise. We report here a case of lichen scrofulosorum in a ten year-old boy with typical grouped lichenoid papules on the trunk associated with axillary tuberculous lymphadenitis.