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Occupational Chronic Hand Dermatitis in Hospital Environment Successfully Treated with Dupilumab: A Case Report

Hui Gan1, Ya-Dong Gao2

  • 1Department of Allergology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China AND Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China. hustgh@hotmail.com.

Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology
|October 16, 2022
PubMed

Duplilumab is approved to treat mild to moderate atopic dermatitis.  It is unclear, however, whether Dupilumab is effective for occupational hand eczema. In this article, we describe a 29-year-old nurse who developed severe hand eczema after working in a hospital for 6 years and received inadequate relief from routine treatment. Duplilumab was administered to the patient with great results.

Keywords:
DupilumabEczemaOccupational dermatitis

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