Frontiers in Medicine, 2023 BackgroundOnychomycoses are fungal infections that can be seen in any component of the nail unit, including the matrix, bed, and plate, and are caused by dermatophyte fungi, non-dermatophyte fungi, and yeasts.
Jeanne Marie Queiroz Borges Bersano +2 more
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Clinical and Laboratory Findings in Trauma-Induced Nail Dystrophy versus Onychomycosis
Siriraj Medical Journal, 2018 Objective: The study aims to investigate the prevalence, clinical characteristics, and laboratory findings of traumatic toenails in comparison with those of onychomycosis.
Charussri Leeyaphan, M.D. +5 more
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The prevalance, epidemiology and risk factors for onychomycosis in hemodialysis patients
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2007 Background Onychomycosis has a high prevalance among immunocompromised patients such as diabetics and hemodialysis patients. In the present study, we aimed to investigate the prevalence of onychomycosis among hemodialysis patients with and without ...
Satar Salim +8 more
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Toenail onychomycosis in a Portuguese geriatric population [PDF]
, 2011 Onychomycosis is a common fungal infection of the nail but few data of mycological features in geriatric Portuguese population are yet available. The aim of this study was to perform a mycological examination and characterization of fungal nail ...
Dias, Nicolina +3 more
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Pifu-xingbing zhenliaoxue zazhi, 2020 Objective: To investigate the relationship between polymorphism of human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DRB1 alleles and onychomycosis in Chinese Han population in Guangdong province.
Yu LAN +4 more
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Psychosocial perception of adults with onychomycosis: a blinded, controlled comparison of 1,017 adult Hong Kong residents with or without onychomycosis [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: A survey was conducted amongst 1,017 Hong Kong residents ages 18 and over to determine their knowledge of fungal nail infections (onychomycosis) and the psychosocial impact of the disease on the relationships, social lives and careers of ...
Chi Yeung, Emma T Wong, Henry HL Chan
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Journal of Fungi, 2023 Fusarium are uncommon but important pathogenic organisms; they cause non-dermatophyte mould (NDM) onychomycosis. Patients typically respond poorly to treatment owing to Fusarium’s native resistance to multiple antifungal drugs.
Lai-Ying Lu +5 more
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Carbamoylated nail proteins as assessed by near-infrared analysis are associated with load of uremic toxins and mortality in hemodialysis patients [PDF]
, 2020 Carbamoylation is an important risk factor for accelerated atherogenesis and mortality in patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD). We intended to explore whether carbamoylation as assessed by near-infrared (NIR) analysis of nail proteins is associated with
De Bruyne, Sander +7 more
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Healthy Nails versus Long Lives: An Analysis of a Dutch Priority Setting Proposal [PDF]
, 2020 How should governments balance saving people from very large individual disease burdens (such as an early death) against saving them from middling burdens (such as erectile dysfunction) and minor burdens (such as nail fungus)? This chapter considers this
Voorhoeve, Alex
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Patient-reported outcomes from two randomised studies comparing once-weekly application of amorolfine 5% nail lacquer to other methods of topical treatment in distal and lateral subungual onychomycosis [PDF]
, 2017 Patient adherence is a key consideration in the choice of a topical regimen for the treatment of onychomycosis. The objective of this study was to investigate patient-reported outcomes (treatment utilisation, adherence and satisfaction) in onychomycosis ...
Allevato +29 more
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