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Successful treatment of Kimura's disease with cyclosporine
1Department of Dermatology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan. pst@nms.ac.jp
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
|October 27, 1999
Abstract:
We report the case of a 29-year-old Japanese woman presenting with recurring Kimura's disease. We began treatment with cyclosporine within 7 days, the nodular lesion had almost cleared. The cyclosporine dose was then gradually reduced and discontinued after 6 months. The patient was reassessed 18 months after the cessation of treatment and there was no evidence of recurrence of the disease. We speculate that the effects of cyclosporine on T helper-2 cells improves Kimura's disease.