Featuring Ginette Okoye, MD and Temitayo Ogunleye, MD Saturday morning began with an enlightening conversation with Dr. Ginette Okoye and Dr. Temitayo Ogunleye reviewing medical literature on skin of color. While this is improving, Dr. Okoye mentioned “ there is not a lot of great research in skin of color”. Dr. Ogunleye presented a review …
In the second product theater on the first day of the general conference, Dr. Jeffery Fromowitz shared his clinical experience treating rosacea with topical products. Dr. Fromowitz highlighted that rosacea is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects approximately 16 million Americans and can occur in any race or ethnic background. In addition, rosacea can adversely …
Gina Fragione, MPAS, PA-C presented a lecture on Comorbidities in Rosacea and Acne: Fact or Fiction at the SDPA Annual Summer Conference. She began by discussing the pathophysiology of rosacea as primarily an inflammatory disorder consisting of a dysregulation of innate an adaptive immune system, and that it shares a common general pathophysiology with reported …
Rosacea has been found to be significantly associated as comorbid with cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and psychiatric diseases. This is thought to be because rosacea is generally linked to abnormalities of cutaneous vasculature and dysregulation of the inflammatory response, and therefore shares similarities with systemic diseases of the same nature. A recent review looked at available data …