Vessel Resistance To Blood Flow In The Nailfold In Patients With Psoriasis: A Prospective Case-Control Echo Doppler-Based Study

ABSTRACT

Background:  Psoriasis is a disease in which endothelial cells seem to play an important pathogenic role. No report published to date has examined of nail vascularity in psoriasis patients


Objetive:  Evaluate the vascularity in the nails of patients with psoriasis treated with classic and biologic therapies for comparison to disease-free controls. Furthermore, we evaluated whether there were differences in nail vascularity among patients with and without nail involvement


Methods:  We performed a prospective study with 2 cohorts comprising 23 patients with moderate-severe psoriasis and 23 controls without psoriasis. We measured the nailfold ...

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