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Hello, I'm Michael Ardern-Jones,
Associate Professor
of Dermatology
and Clinical Consultant
Dermatologist
at the University
of Southampton.
And today I'm going to talk to you
about Atopic Eczema.
In this title slide reminds me
to have emphasize
that the term Atopic Eczema
is synonymous
with the Atopic Dermatitis.
The two are completely
interchangeable
and if I use atopic eczema
throughout subsequent slides
then you could also replace that
with atopic dermatitis.
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Atopic eczema is one of variety
of different eczemas
and I've listed here some
different variants of eczema
which I'm not going to focus
on this presentation,
instead I'm going to talk
about atopic eczema
which is characterized
by an itchy,
chronically relapsing,
inflammatory skin condition
that is much more prominent
in childhood than in adulthood.
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I'm going to talk to you
about epidemiology,
diagnostic criteria
and clinical features,
co-morbidities, genetics, immunology,
allergy and current management,
and then I'm going to move on
to future management
of the disease.
