INDICATORII DE APRECIERE AI SEVERIT??II BOLII PSORIAZICE ?I DE AFECTARE A CALIT??II VIE?II LA PACIEN?II CU PSORIAZIS

摘要

Background. Psoriasis is a chronic disease that affects the quality of the patient’s life. Lately, there is a special interest to improve the quality of the patients’ life with chronic diseases. Methods. We performed a prospective study on 80 patients with psoriasis over a period of 12 months. We examined the severity index of the disease (Body Surface Area, Psoriasis Area and Severity Index, Nail Psoriasis Severity Index) and the quality of the patients’ life with psoriasis (using Dermatological Life Quality Index). Results. The most frequent clinical form was the vulgaris form (72,32%). Over ? of all the cases had feelings of embarrassment due to the injury, had severe itching, had problems in their personal and social life, had a decrease of domestic activities and had made many treatments at home. Most hospitalized patients had moderate and severe forms of the disease (91,25%). Over ? of the patients had skin lesions on 10-30% of the body surface. In our group of study, 76,25% of the patients had nails changes. Conclusions. The indicators for assessing the severity of psoriasis and the alteration in the quality of the patients’ life are particularly useful in clinical practice being concrete criteria that allow a selection of appropriate treatment schemes and helping us for monitoring the evolution of the disease.