Biologic drugs induced vitiligo: case reports and review of literature
Xinyi Shao, Tingqiao Chen, Xingyu Pan, Shuang Chen, Yangmei Chen, Jin Chen · 2024
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Xinyi Shao and five co-authors report two cases of vitiligo that began during biologic drug treatment, with a literature review, in a paper from 2024. Vitiligo is a loss of skin pigment. One patient, an eighty-year-old man, developed patches two months into a drug for eczema; the patches stayed after the drug stopped. A fourteen-year-old girl developed forehead patches one month into the same drug.
Her patches partly improved even while treatment went on. The authors suggest the drug, which blocks one arm of the immune system, may tilt the balance toward the arm that attacks pigment cells. Awareness of this rare side effect is urged as biologic use grows.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xinyi Shao, Tingqiao Chen, Xingyu Pan, Shuang Chen, Yangmei Chen, Jin Chen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 16 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |