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PURPOSE To describe a case of severe rosacea with ocular involvement. CASE REPORT A 28-year-old female patient presented with extensive facial and ocular eruptions. She had a history of treatment with oral prednisolone due to the clinical diagnosis of lupus erythematosus (LE), which had resulted in transient improvement of the lesions, but was followed by exacerbation of the lesions. With the...

We report the case of a 56-year-old HIV-seropositive man who presented a facial Demodex infection developed 2 months after initiation of highly active antiretroviral therapy. The Demodex infection was confirmed by scrapings and histopathologic examination and by the dramatic response to antiparasitic treatment with oral ivermectin associated with 5% permethrin cream.

Sir, Demodex mites are common ectoparasites of human skin (1). Two species, Demodex folliculorum and the smaller D. brevis, inhabit the human pilosebaceous unit and are found in individuals of all ages except neonates. They inhabit almost every area of human skin but show a predilection for the face, especially the nose and nasolabial folds. Cases in which demodicidosis developed on other sites...

OBJECTIVE In this study, we aimed to investigate frequency of Demodex (D.) folliculorum infestation in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS The study population consisted of 30 PCOS patients and 30 matched healthy control subjects admitted to the Hospital of Mustafa Kemal University, Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinic between March 2013 and January 2014. The demographic char...

BACKGROUND Demodex may cause chronic and refractory blepharitis with associated ocular surface problems, and its diagnosis and treatment can be quite challenging. In this study, our aim was to assess the efficacy of tea tree oil in Demodex treatment on caucasian patients in an industrialized region of Turkey, and to develop a systematic scoring system for extremely accurate diagnosis in the abs...

I read with interest the unusual case presented by Escudero Pastor et al [1] about a woman with persistent palpebral and periorbital edema due to Demodex folliculorum. The authors characterize the case within the general context of angioedema, which is surprising, considering that the edema was not episodic but continuous for more than a year and a half. Angioedema is defined as a kind of edema...

PURPOSE To report the corneal manifestations in eyes with Demodex infestation of the eyelids. DESIGN Noncomparative, interventional case series. METHODS This retrospective review included six patients with Demodex blepharitis who also exhibited corneal abnormalities, which led to suspicion of limbal stem cell deficiency in three cases. All patients received weekly lid scrubs with 50% tea tr...

A 10-year-old male Shih Tzu dog named Renbow is experiencing skin problems with signs of itching. Clinical examination showed alopecia, erythema, thickening the and oily skin. On face to left side neck, was injured due scratching a high enough intensity swelling under filled fluid. deep scraping on found mite Demodex sp. amounted 3-8 per one field view cytology fungus Malassezia spores. Hematol...