Rosacea is a common chronic cutaneous disorder that primarily occurs on the convex surfaces of the central face and is often characterized by exacerbations and remissions. A case of a 52-yr-old woman visited our clinic in February 2008 complaining typical features of rosacea including multiple pinhead to rice-sized erythematous papules. We applied various conventional treatments including topic...

BACKGROUND A rising number of laser- or light-based therapies are addressing the need for effective acne treatments with minimal downtime. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to evaluate an intense pulsed light (IPL) equipped with a 530- to 750-nm filter for inflammatory acne treatment. PATIENTS AND METHODS Thirty female patients (mean age, 25.7 years) with mild-to-moderate acne were enr...

INTRODUCTION Acne is a chronic inflammatory disease. Key to a patient's success on fixed-dose adapalene-benzoyl peroxide (BPO) gel is ensuring adherence. Use of a pump system to deliver a pre-measured amount of gel with each pressure enables application of a more consistent dose vs. the tube, which should improve adherence. In the present study, we evaluate patient preference for two different ...

BACKGROUND Acne vulgaris is a chronic skin disease with a high prevalence. Left untreated or inadequately treated, acne vulgaris can lead to psychological and physical scarring, as well as to unnecessary medical expenses. Oral isotretinoin is an effective treatment for severe resistant nodular and conglobate acne vulgaris. A regimen consisting of a fixed-dose combination of adapalene and benzoy...

1 Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA 2 The Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research (CEAMR ), Chemistry Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia † Present address: Max-Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany ‡ Present address: Clean Energy Research Cente...

In this article we give a conceptual definition of Manin products in any category endowed with two coherent monoidal products. This construction can be applied to associative algebras, non-symmetric operads, operads, colored operads, and properads presented by generators and relations. These two products, called black and white, are dual to each other under Koszul duality functor. We study thei...

This review of current acne treatments begins with the crucial discovery in 1979 of isotretinoin treatment for nodulocystic acne. This drug s approval in 1982 revolutionized therapy, since it was the first oral acne-specific drug, and it provided prolonged remissions. In addition, it may prevent the emergence of resistant bacteria, a problem linked to the traditional use of antibiotics for acne...

Start End Topic Speakers 14:00 14:05 Introduction  Carlos D'Ancona 14:05 14:20 Radiology in the diagnosis of BPO  Matthias Oelke 14:20 14:35 What information urodynamic provides?  Mário Gomes 14:35 14:50 Drugs in the treatment of BPO  Carlos D'Ancona 14:50 15:05 Intraprostatic botulinun toxin  Ervin Kocjancic 15:05 15:20 Is it possible preserve bladder function?  Mário Gomes 15:20 15:30 T...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Antibiotic-induced drug resistance requires new approaches in topical acne treatment. Tyrothricin is known to produce no resistance. In this study, it was tested for the first time in topical acne treatment. The efficacy and tolerability of topical tyrothricin 0.1% was evaluated. METHODS A randomized, active comparator-controlled, exploratory, observer-blind clinical study was...

We present an extension of Fenchel’s duality theorem to nearly convexity, giving weaker conditions under which it takes place. Instead of minimizing the difference between a convex and a concave function, we minimize the subtraction of a nearly concave function from a nearly convex one. The assertion in the special case of Fenchel’s duality theorem that consists in minimizing the difference bet...