Seborrheic keratosis
1. A round, brown-colored, flat wart.
2. Most often seen in middle-aged to older adults.
3. A benign lesion.

HERPES ZOSTER (Shingles)

An infection with varicella-zoster virus primarily involving the dorsal root ganglia and characterized by vesicular eruption and neuralgic pain in the dermatome of the affected root ganglia.

caused by varicella-zoster virus

Symptoms and Signs

Pain along the site of the future eruption usually precedes the rash by 2 to 3 days. Characteristic crops of vesicles on an erythematous base then appear, following the cutaneous distribution of one or more adjacent dermatomes

Eruptions occur most often in the thoracic or lumbar region and are unilateral. Lesions usually continue to form for about 3 to 5 days

Geniculate zoster (Ramsay Hunt's syndrome) results from involvement of the geniculate ganglion. Pain in the ear and facial paralysis occur on the involved side. A vesicular eruption occurs in the external auditory canal, and taste may be lost in the anterior two thirds of the tongue

Nephrosclerosis
 Disease of the renal arteries.

 Clinical manifestations:
 (1) Benign (arterial) nephrosclerosis →  Caused by the formation of atherosclerotic plaques in the renal artery. Results in narrowing of the arterioles.

(2) Malignant nephrosclerosis → Caused by malignant hypertension. Common signs of malignant hypertension include severe hypertension, retinal hemorrhages, and hypertrophy of the left ventricle. Results in inflammatory changes in the vascular walls, which may lead to rupture of the glomerular capillaries.

Nonspecific or Innate Immunity

1. Genetic factors

• Species: Guinea pig is very susceptible to tuberculosis.
• Race: Negroes are more susceptible to tuberculosis than whites
• Sickle cells (HbS-a genetic determined Haemoglobinopathy resistant to Malarial parasite.

2. Age Extremes of age are more susceptible.

3. Hormonal status. Low resistance in:

• Diabetes Mellitus.
• Increased corticosteroid levels.
• Hypothyroidism

4. Phagocytosis. Infections can Occur in :

• Qualitative  or quantitative defects in neutrophils and monocytes.
• Diseases of mononuclear phagocytic system (Reticuloendothelial cells-RES).
• Overload blockade of RES.

5. Humoral factors

• Lysozyme.
• Opsonins.
• Complement
• Interferon (antiviral agent secreted by cells infected by virus)

Infections caused by gonorrhea

1.  Acute urethritis.  Mostly in males.  Generally self-limiting.  Dysuria and purulent discharge.

2.  Endocervical infection.  Purulent vaginal discharge, abnormal menses, pelvic pain.  Often co-infection with other STD’s.  Some women are asymptomatic.

3.  Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID).  Consequence of ascending endocervical infection.  Causes salpingitis, endometriosis, bilateral abdominal pain, discharge, fever.  May lead to sterility, chronic pain, and ectopic pregnancy because of loss of fallopian cilia.

4.  Anorectal inflammation.  Mostly in homosexual men.  Pain, itching, discharge from anus.

5.  Dermatitis/arthritis.  Occurs after bacteremia.  Skin will have papules on an erythematous base which develop into necrotic pustules.  Asymmetric joint pain.  These infections are susceptible to penicillin.

6.  Neonatal infections.  Ophthalmia neonatorum is a conjunctival infection from going through infected vagina.  After one year of age, suspect child abuse.

Jaundice, or icterus

a. Characterized by yellowness of tissues, including skin, eyes, and mucous membranes. 
b. Caused by excess conjugated and/or unconjugated serum bilirubin. (increased levels of bilirubin in the blood)
lcterus is visible when the serum bilirubin exceeds 2 mg/dl. In unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia, bilirubin is not excreted into the urine because of tight protein binding in serum. In conjugated hyperbilirubinemia, small amounts of bilirubin are excreted in the urine because
it is less tightly protein bound. 

 NOTE: Concentration of bilirubin in blood plasma does not normally exceed 1 mg/dL (>17µmol/L). A concentration higher than 1.8 mg/dL (>30µmol/L) leads to jaundice.
 
 The conjunctiva of the eye are one of the first tissues to change color as bilirubin levels rise in jaundice. This is sometimes referred to as scleral icterus.

c. Types and causes include:
(1) Hepatocellular jaundice—caused by liver diseases such as cirrhosis and hepatitis.
(2) Hemolytic jaundice—caused by hemolytic anemias.
(3) Obstructive jaundice—caused by blockage of the common bile duct either by gallstones (cholelithiasis) or carcinomas involving the head of
the pancreas. 

Differential diagnosis 

Jaundice is classified into three categories, depending on which part of the physiological mechanism the pathology affects. The three categories are:

Pre-hepatic → The pathology is occurring prior to the liver.
Hepatic → The pathology is located within the liver.
Post-Hepatic → The pathology is located after the conjugation of bilirubin in the liver. 

Pre-hepatic
Pre-hepatic jaundice is caused by anything which causes an increased rate of hemolysis (breakdown of red blood cells).
Certain genetic diseases, such as sickle cell anemia, spherocytosis, thalassemia and glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency can lead to increased red cell lysis and therefore hemolytic jaundice. 
 Commonly, diseases of the kidney, such as hemolytic uremic syndrome, can also lead to coloration. Defects in bilirubin metabolism also
present as jaundice, as in Gilbert's syndrome (a genetic disorder of bilirubin metabolism which can result in mild jaundice, which is found in about 5% of the population) and Crigler-Najjar syndrome.
In jaundice secondary to hemolysis, the increased production of bilirubin, leads to the increased production of urine-urobilinogen. Bilirubin is not usually found in the urine because unconjugated bilirubin is not water-soluble, so, the combination of increased urine-urobilinogen with no bilirubin (since, unconjugated) in urine is suggestive of hemolytic jaundice. 

Laboratory findings include:
• Urine: no bilirubin present, urobilinogen > 2 units (i.e., hemolytic anemia causes increased heme metabolism; exception: infants where gut flora has not developed).
• Serum: increased unconjugated bilirubin.
• Kernicterus is associated with increased unconjugated bilirubin. 

Hepatocellular 
Hepatocellular (hepatic) jaundice can be caused by acute or chronic hepatitis, hepatotoxicity, cirrhosis, drug induced hepatitis and alcoholic liver disease. Cell necrosis reduces the liver's ability to metabolize and excrete bilirubin leading to a buildup of unconjugated bilirubin in the blood.

Laboratory findings depend on the cause of jaundice.
• Urine: Conjugated bilirubin present, urobilirubin > 2 units but variable (except in children). Kernicterus is a condition not associated with increased conjugated bilirubin.
• Plasma protein show characteristic changes.
• Plasma albumin level is low but plasma globulins are raised due to an increased formation of antibodies. 

Bilirubin transport across the hepatocyte may be impaired at any point between the uptake of unconjugated bilirubin into the cell and transport of conjugated bilirubin into biliary canaliculi.

Post-hepatic  

Post-hepatic jaundice, also called obstructive jaundice, is caused by an interruption to the drainage of bile in the biliary system. The most common causes are gallstones in the common bile duct, and pancreatic cancer in the head of the pancreas. Also, a group of parasites known as "liver flukes" can live in the common bile duct, causing obstructive jaundice. Other causes include strictures of the common bile duct, biliary atresia, cholangiocarcinoma, pancreatitis and pancreatic pseudocysts. A rare cause of obstructive jaundice is Mirizzi's syndrome. 

Pathophysiology 

When RBCs are damaged, their membranes become fragile and prone to rupture. As each RBC traverses through the reticuloendothelial system, its cell membrane ruptures when its membrane is fragile enough to allow this. 

Hemoglobin, are released into the blood. The hemoglobin is phagocytosed by macrophages, and split into its heme and globin portions. The globin portion, a protein, is degraded into amino acids and plays no role in jaundice. 

Two reactions then take place with the heme molecule. 
The first oxidation reaction is catalyzed by the microsomal enzyme heme oxygenase and results in biliverdin (green color pigment), iron
and carbon monoxide. 
The next step is the reduction of biliverdin to a yellow color tetrapyrol pigment called bilirubin by cytosolic enzyme biliverdin reductase. 

This bilirubin is "unconjugated," "free" or "indirect" bilirubin. Approximately 4 mg of bilirubin per kg of blood is produced each day.[11] The majority of this bilirubin comes from the breakdown of heme from expired red blood cells in the process just described.

However approximately 20 percent comes from other heme sources, including ineffective erythropoiesis, and the breakdown of other heme-containing proteins, such as muscle myoglobin and cytochromes.

Hepatic events

The unconjugated bilirubin then travels to the liver through the bloodstream. Because bilirubin is not soluble, however, it is transported through the blood bound to serum albumin. 
In Liver, it is conjugated with glucuronic acid (to form bilirubin diglucuronide, or just "conjugated bilirubin") to become more water soluble.
The reaction is catalyzed by the enzyme UDP-glucuronyl transferase.

This conjugated bilirubin is excreted from the liver into the biliary and cystic ducts as part of bile. Intestinal bacteria convert the bilirubin into urobilinogen. 

Urobilinogen can take two pathways. It can either be further converted into stercobilinogen, which is then oxidized to stercobilin and passed out in the feces, or it can be reabsorbed by the intestinal cells, transported in the blood to the kidneys, and passed out in the urine as the oxidised product urobilin. 

Stercobilin and urobilin are the products responsible for the coloration of feces and urine, respectively.