Cryosurgery for the treatment of cutaneous sporotrichosis in four pregnant women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pregnant women with sporotrichosis should not receive systemic antifungal therapy except in severe cases when amphotericin B is recommended. Thermotherapy is the most reported treatment described in this group of patients. It entails weeks of daily self-application of heat to the lesions, requires that the patient faithfully apply it, and it could cause skin burns. Cryosurgery is a useful therapeutic tool for many cutaneous infectious diseases, safe for pregnant women, but not well evaluated for sporotrichosis treatment in this group.

Methodology

The authors conducted a retrospective study describing epidemiological, clinical, and therapeutic data related to four pregnant patients with sporotrichosis treated with cryosurgery. The authors reviewed the clinical reco

SUBMITTER: Fichman V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5933803 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature