Publications by authors named "Veronica Arese"
Autoimmune connective tissue-diseases are more frequent in women and deserve a multidisciplinary approach in which the dermatologist play a major role together with other physicians. Pregnancy in these patients has to be considered a high-risk situation, because of possible worsening of the mother's disease and increased morbility and mortality for the fetus; also, therapies have to be chosen carefully because some drugs cannot be used during pregnancy. For all these reasons, the decision to become pregnant needs to consider the type of disease, stage of disease, age and clinical condition, and requires a multidisciplinary approach.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Psoriasis is a common inflammatory skin disease that affects people of every age; prevalence in pediatric population is unknown because of the lack of studies.
Methods: We collected data about patients 0-18 years old coming to our center in the period from November 2010 to September 2012.
Results: We found 69 children (38 males, 31 females) affected by psoriasis, with a male-to-female ratio of 1.