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Periorbital Hyperpigmentation, a Dermatologic Condition Having a Strong Geographic and Ethnic Determinism

Version 1 : Received: 23 July 2018 / Approved: 23 July 2018 / Online: 23 July 2018 (12:56:47 CEST)

How to cite: Andrei, F.; Grujic, D.; Lazar, C.; Dragomirescu, A. Periorbital Hyperpigmentation, a Dermatologic Condition Having a Strong Geographic and Ethnic Determinism. Preprints 2018, 2018070425. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201807.0425.v1 Andrei, F.; Grujic, D.; Lazar, C.; Dragomirescu, A. Periorbital Hyperpigmentation, a Dermatologic Condition Having a Strong Geographic and Ethnic Determinism. Preprints 2018, 2018070425. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201807.0425.v1

Abstract

POH (Peri Orbital Hyperpigmentation) represents a minor clinical entity that attracts immense aesthetic damages and it generates social integration difficulties. This review focuses on the etiopathogenic causes of this entity, differentiating and reclassifying this defect as having, on the one hand, genetic causes of melanic hyperproduction – for Fitzpatrick cutaneous phototypes IV and V – and, on the other hand, both genetic and acquired vascular causes, in individuals with light-coloured skin phototypes. Hence, there is a big difference in the field of pathogenic treatment, for the two entities. In addition, this study notes the direct relationship between skin aging and POH, especially for aquired vascular causes. In this reasoning, other aesthetic deficiencies of the skin in the palpebral area should be also considered, like: blepharochalasis, wrinkles, the anatomical causes of the lower eyelid shading, symmetrical or asymmetric suborbital oedema. All of these issues will complicate the therapeutic decision and subsidiary, the pharmaceutical advice. In this context, the review shows the guidelines for a honest councelling of the patients, pointing the efficiency limit for the topical pharmaceutical medication (depigmentants, exfoliants) versus the necessity of minimally invasive or/ and surgical treatments (in blefarochalasis).

Keywords

hyperpigmentation; palpebral region; geographic skin differences; ethnic predisposition; skin disorder;

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Dermatology

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