Hidradenitis Suppurativa: Understanding to Treat Hidradenite Supurativa: Compreender para Tratar

Abstract

Hidradenitis suppurativa is an inflammatory, chronic, debilitating follicular skin disease, manifested as painful nodules, abcesses, scarring and sinus tracts. Despite its significant impact on patients’ quality of life, only in the last decade hidradenitis suppurativa caught the attention of the scientific community.
This article provides a comprehensive review on hidradenitis suppurativa, based on articles sourced from the bibliographic database PubMed/MEDLINE. We included original articles, review articles and meta-analysis, written in english. From our research we concluded that further investigation is necessary in order to better define risk factors, pathological mechanisms, natural history and treatment of hidradenitis suppurativa.