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Mycological Results after Antifungal Treatment of Toenail Dermatophytosis

Gun Park,Sung Woo Lee,Hyo Chan Jang,Hyun Chung,Jae Bok Jun,Yong Jun Bang
Epub 2016 February 19

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Abstract



Backgrounds: Toenail dermatophytosis is a common disease caused by dermatophytes. As it may cause not only a cosmetic disfigurement but also the physical, psychological, and social limitations, the need for the treatment has been increased. Recently, itraconazole and terbinafine have been popularly used with less serious side effects than before.


Objective: We performed a retrospective study to observe the mycological results of antifungal therapy after the treatment of toenail dermatophytosis for 12 weeks.


Method: The study population consisted of 169 patients with toenail dermatophytosis in Catholic Skin Clinic from June, 2003 to October, 2005.


Results: Threre was no significant difference in mycological cure rate between the oral itraconazole group and the oral terbinafine group (52.2% vs 52.0%; p=0.985). Mycological cure rate of the oral terbinafine with 5% amorolfine nail lacquer group was insignificantly higher than that of the oral itraconazole with 5% amorolfine nail lacquer group (55.6% vs 40.6%; p=0.309). There were no significant difference between the different age groups, sexes, and cultured organisms.


Conclusion: In toenail dermatophytosis, both of the oral itraconazole therapy and the oral terbinafine therapy are very effective and there was no significant difference in the mycological results after the 12 weeks therapy of toenail dermatophytosis.



Keywords


Mycological result Toenail dermatophytosis




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