Publications by authors named "Xavier Fusta-Novell"
Article Synopsis
- VEXAS syndrome is an adult-onset autoinflammatory disease caused by postzygotic genetic variants, affecting males with symptoms like skin lesions, fever, and arthritis at a mean age of 67.5 years.
- In a study of 42 patients, 30 were identified with pathogenic genetic variants and showed varying degrees of glucocorticoid dependence for symptom management.
- The research revealed that these variants were present in both blood and non-blood tissues, challenging the previous understanding that these genetic changes were limited to myeloid (blood) cells.
Article Synopsis
- 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.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA previous study has defined the maculopapular subtype of manifestations of COVID-19. The objective of our study was to describe and classify maculopapular eruptions associated with COVI-19. We carried out a subanalysis of the maculopapular cases found in the previous cross-sectional study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPorokeratosis is a heterogeneous group of dermatoses with alterations of keratinization. Histologically, they are characterized by the presence of cornoid lamellae. Eruptive pruritic papular porokeratosis (EPPP) or the inflammatory form of disseminated superficial porokeratosis (or eruptive disseminated porokeratosis) is an infrequent variant, characterized by pruritic erythematous papules or annular lesions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDistal infection of the middle finger caused by .
Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol
August 2019