Category: Curation

#StayInformed: April 2024 PubMed curation

Federica Casetti, Cristina Has➜ First published: 03 March 2024 - DOI: 10.1111/ddg.15358Dupilumab improves congenital ichthyosis in the context of a filaggrin pathogenic variant. This report from Germany confirms other reports of a response of rare ichthyotic conditions such as Netherton’s syndrome and trichothiodystrophy to targeting IL-4Rα, and that the common FLG mutations may accentuate the inflammatory phenotype [...] Read More

#StayInformed: March 2024 PubMed curation

Docampo-Simon et al Int J Dermatol 2024➜ First published: 03 March 2024 - DOI: 10.1111/ijd.17100Spanish investigators delineate based on a small case series psoriasis dermatitis, a common ambiguous phenotype of early forms of both psoriasis and atopic dermatitis in children; this phenotype was already well recognized in infants, but this study adds arguments for a later [...] Read More

#StayInformed: February 2024 PubMed curation

Omatsu et al, Allergol Int 2024➜ PMID: 38310042. - DOI: 10.1016/j.alit.2024.01.008An interesting study from Japan shows that AD is very significantly associated with the incidence of HSV keratitis, and that preexisting AD blepharitis is an important contributing factor.This paper is important in the context of real or supposed AD co-morbidities where ophthalmologic comorbidities are generally not adequately [...] Read More