Articles: disease.
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Croatian medical journal · Oct 2020
Clinical characteristics of hospitalized adults and adolescents with herpes zoster in Croatia: more than 20 years of a single-center experience.
To evaluate the clinical characteristics of adult and adolescent Croatian patients hospitalized for herpes zoster over a period of 21 years in the largest national center for infectious diseases (catchment area approximately 25% of the Croatian population). ⋯ The patients most frequently hospitalized for herpes zoster are elderly people burdened with comorbidities, not necessarily patients with complicated forms of the disease.
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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in Asia has become increasingly prevalent. As a treatment of IBD, many immunomodulators and biological agents were introduced and shown to be effective in inducing and maintaining remission. However, many cases with treatment failure were reported. ⋯ In UC patients, the results were in similar pattern, but this pattern was not observed in CD patients in our study. Our study shows that Korean IBD patients are at risk of TB, and the risk increases with usage of IBD medication; moreover, the risk is the highest if combination therapy is used. These results highlight the importance of screening for TB in IBD patients, especially in combination therapy.