Correlation between Severity of Atopic Dermatitis and Sleep Quality in Children and Adults.

Background: The atopic dermatitis (AD) can limit a patient's physical and psychosocial development as well as lower their overall quality of life (QOL), including sleep quality.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationships between clinical disease severity, QOL and sleep quality in children and adults with AD.

Methods: The SCORing atopic dermatitis (SCORAD) was examined to evaluate the severity of AD in fifty adult AD patients and 50 children AD patients.

Subungual Posttraumatic Ectopic Nail.

Ectopic nail is defined as the malformation of nail tissue in a location other than the usual nail unit. We present a 12-year-old boy with a single dystrophic thumb nail after an injury. The nail was observed under the original nail and it is linked to the original nail plate by longitudinal bridge formation with parallel growth.

Vitamin D Status and Its Association with the SCORAD Score and Serum LL-37 Level in Korean Adults and Children with Atopic Dermatitis.

Background: Vitamin D insufficiency could be associated with the prevalence of atopic dermatitis (AD).

Objective: To examine vitamin D status and the relations between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels, SCORAD score, serum LL-37 level, and body mass index (BMI) in Korean AD patients, and to explore whether these associations differ between adults and children.

Methods: Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels, serum LL-37, and clinical features were analyzed in a total of 72 Korean patients with AD (39 adults and 33 children) and 140 healthy control subjects (70 adults and 70 children).