The impact of underlying disease state on outcomes in patients with pyoderma gangrenosum: A national survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Whether the underlying disease affects the outcomes in pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is unclear.

Objectives

To determine the impact of comorbid disease associations and concomitant procedural treatments on patient outcomes in hospitalizations of patients with PG.

Methods

A cross-sectional analysis of the National Inpatient Sample for hospitalizations of patients with PG from the years 2002 to 2011, analyzing in-hospital mortality rate and health care resource utilization.

Results

Inflammatory bowel disease was the most frequent comorbid association, followed by inflammatory arthritis, hematologic malignancies/dyscrasia, and vasculitis. Multivariable modeling showed that vasculitis and hematologic malignancy/dyscrasia, when compared with inflammatory bowe

SUBMITTER: Kaffenberger BH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6086769 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature