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. 2020 Jul;33(4):e13470.
doi: 10.1111/dth.13470. Epub 2020 May 11.

Which dermatology patients attend to Dermatology Outpatient Clinics during the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in Turkey and what happened to them?

Fatma Pelin Cengiz  1 , Nazan Emiroglu  1 , Anil Gulsel Bahali  1 , Didem Dizman  1 , Nazan Taslidere  1 , Tahsin Cagdas Akarslan  1 , Begum Gunes  1 , Omer Mert  1 , Ozlem Su Kucuk  1 , Nahide Onsun  1
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Which dermatology patients attend to Dermatology Outpatient Clinics during the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in Turkey and what happened to them?

Fatma Pelin Cengiz et al. Dermatol Ther. 2020 Jul.

Abstract

Coronavirus disease, first emerged in Wuhan, rapidly spread all over the world since December 2019. There are concerns about elective dermatology appointments and its results. Herein, we aimed to find out which type of dermatologic patients attended to dermatology outpatient clinic. The patients visiting the clinics for elective dermatologic diseases between March 11 and 18, 2020, were included in this study. Their age, sex, diagnosis of disease, requirement for emergent intervention, and their medical records about COVID-19 were obtained. There were 390 patients attending to the dermatology outpatient clinic in this period. The most common disease was acne (N: 94, 24%), only 19% of patients need emergent interventions or dose adjustment. There were 40 (10%) patients over the age of 65. After their visits, five patients were diagnosed as COVID-19 in 2weeks. Dermatologic examinations may be a vector for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission since being closed to the patient. Five of our patients were diagnosed as COVID-19 after their elective visit to hospital. Since the asymptomatic course of some young patients, most of our patients were not screened for COVID-19. Our findings support the concerns of elective physician examinations.

Keywords: SARS-CoV-2; dermatology.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no potential conflict of interest.

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