Department of skin and venereal diseases holds consultative work at the «City polyclinic und hospital for skin and venereal diseases» in Minsk, providing dermatological and venereological care to the population of Minsk and the Republic of Belarus. Head of the department, professor and associate professors consult outpatients and conduct clinical rounds in the hospital departments.
Staff of the department perform:
- Lumbal puncture in patients with syphilis (V.G. Pankratau),
- Laboratory diagnostics of STIs (N.D. Khilkevich),
- Microbiological tests of the urogenital track microorganisms (N.D. Khilkevich),
- Spermogram examination (N.D. Khilkevich),
- Diagnosis and treatment of acneiform dermatoses (H.P. Muzychenka, M.V. Kachuk),
- Differential diagnosis and treatment of scalp diseases (H.P. Muzychenka, M.V. Kachuk),
- Injection methods for correction of mimic wrinkles, mesotherapy, peeling (H.P. Muzychenka, T.A. Sikorskaya),
- Dermatoscopy of neoplasms (V.A. Malyutin).
The following methods of treatment are applied in the medical practice at the «City polyclinic and hospital for skin and venereal diseases»
- microdez in the complex therapy of eczema;
- Zinkteral in the therapy of alopecia;
- megadoses of penicillin for the treatment of neuro- and visceral syphilis;
- methotrexate in the complex therapy of bullous dermatosis;
- laser therapy of alopecia areata;
- treatment of neurosyphilis and serofast syphilis with ceftriaxone;
- treatment of Microsporum with terbisil;
- histophene in the therapy of allergodermatosis;
- mydocalm in the therapy of onychomycosis in diabetic patients;
- low-dose isotretinoin therapy of patients with acne and rosacea, etc;
- drug therapy of Streptococcus-associated psoriasis.
