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Immunostimulatory Agent Evaluation: Lymphoid Tissue Extraction and Injection Route-Dependent Dendritic Cell Activation
Published on: September 16, 2018
Infliximab therapy for sarcoidosis (lupus pernio)
1Department of Dermatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, U.S.A.
Abstract:
Sarcoidosis is a chronic granulomatous disease of unknown aetiology in which the primary cytokine tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha appears to play a major role. Older immune-modulating drugs including corticosteroids, antimalarials and thalidomide, as well as cytotoxic drugs with immune modulatory effects, have been used to control disease. We present a patient with severe mutilating cutaneous sarcoidosis (lupus pernio) who had showed only partial response to courses of a wide spectrum of immune modulators and cytotoxic therapies, and who had developed significant side-effects due to prolonged high-dose corticosteroids. However, the patient's cutaneous disease responded rapidly to the TNF-alpha inhibitor infliximab.
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