Correlation Between Extracutaneous Microvascular Complications and Diabetic Foot Ulcers in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

Background: Diabetes is a metabolic disease that is taking an epidemic proportion around the world. The occurrence of microvascular complications and diabetic foot ulcer is associated with an increased mortality and morbidity incidence, which is the most serious complication of this disease, which significantly reduce the quality of patient life.

Objective: The aim of the study was to determine the correlation of extracutaneous microvascular complications with diabetic foot ulcer in patients with type 2 diabetes.

[Late neurosyphilis in a psychiatric hospital].

Aim: The problem of detection and diagnosis of late forms of neurosyphilis remains relevant and to a large extent concerns the field of psychiatry. The autors study of professional activity of psychiatric hospital in this field with use of clinical and statistical data.

Material And Methods: The article presents modern statistical data on the detection of these forms of syphilis in psychiatric hospitals of the Moscow region in comparison with the indicators of 2008-2010.

Poikilodermatous mycosis fungoides: clinical and histopathological analysis of a case and literature review.

Poikilodermatous mycosis fungoides is a rare distinct clinical variant of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL), formerly referred to as poikiloderma vasculare atrophicans or parapsoriasis variegata. Mycosis fungoides (MF) is a malignant neoplasm of T-lymphocyte origin, most commonly memory CD4+ T-cells.We report here a patient with generalized poikilodermatous skin lesions whose diagnosis of mycosis fungoides was made only a few years after the onset of his disease due to its bizarre clinical behavior and a natural reluctance to diagnose this disease in children and adolescents.

Infection by hepatitis B and C virus in female and transsexual Greek prostitutes with serological evidence of active syphilis.

Two hundred and thirty female and 43 male-to-female transsexual Greek prostitutes were screened for serological evidence of active syphilis as judged by positivity in both rapid plasma reagin (RPR) test and treponemal (FTA-ABS and TPHA) tests. The rate of active syphilis was 20.9% in the male-to-female transsexual prostitutes and 4.

Cervical cytology screening in a sexually transmitted diseases clinic for the first time in Sri Lanka.

A prospective study of cervical cytology was carried out on 350 consecutive female patients attending the central venereal diseases clinic (CVDC) in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The main objective was to assess the proportion of abnormal cervical smears to emphasise the need to introduce routine cervical cytology screening in the sexually transmitted diseases (STD) clinics in Sri Lanka. Data about each woman's age, sexual history, method of contraception, number of pregnancies, genital infections, and previous cervical smears were collected to compare the findings in patients with normal smears with findings in those with abnormal smears.