BACKGROUND There is no appropriate and reliable method of evaluating and monitoring severity in rosacea. OBJECTIVE To determine the importance of nailfold capillaroscopy as a diagnostic and prognostic method for patients with rosacea. METHODS A cross-sectional study where eight patients with rosacea and 8 control subjects were submitted to nailfold capillaroscopy from May to July 2009. We c...

OBJECTIVE To examine clinical associations, family history of rosacea, and response to treatment in prepubertal children with steroid rosacea. DESIGN Retrospective case-series evaluation of children younger than 13 years with steroid rosacea seen over an 8-year period (1991-1998). SETTING Ambulatory care university hospital. PATIENTS Referral patients from pediatricians serving a populati...

BACKGROUND There is an unmet need for general population-based epidemiological data on rosacea based on contemporary diagnostic criteria and validated population survey methodology. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of rosacea in the general population of Germany and Russia. METHODS General population screening was conducted in 9-10 cities per country to ensure adequate geographic repres...

BACKGROUND Rosacea is a chronic skin disorder that adversely affects patients' quality of life. Current studies focus on the therapies that treat the clinical signs and symptoms of rosacea, but the impact of this disease on patients' emotional health and quality of life is often overlooked. OBJECTIVES To describe the disease burden of rosacea and the psychosocial implications on patients' qua...

A Glycomics approach to detect disease is illustrated in the analyses of human tear fluid for rosacea. The diagnosis of ocular rosacea is particularly challenging in a subgroup of patients that do not present with typical facial skin findings but have ocular signs and symptoms. Indeed, up to 90% of patients with ocular rosacea may have neither obvious roseatic skin changes nor a previous diagno...