John Frew, Annika Smith, Pablo Fernandez Penas, Elisabeth Ellis, Peter Foley, Diana Rubel, Erin McMeniman, Gillian Marshman, Helen Saunders, Emma Veysey, Jenny Nicolopolous, Linda Spelman, Kurt Gebauer
{"title":"Australasian hidradenitis suppurativa management guidelines.","authors":"John Frew, Annika Smith, Pablo Fernandez Penas, Elisabeth Ellis, Peter Foley, Diana Rubel, Erin McMeniman, Gillian Marshman, Helen Saunders, Emma Veysey, Jenny Nicolopolous, Linda Spelman, Kurt Gebauer","doi":"10.1111/ajd.14388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajd.14388","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hidradenitis Suppurativa is a burdensome inflammatory skin disease with significant quality of life impact. These management guidelines were developed to direct appropriate clinical management in the Australasian context. A systematic review was used for the basis of the consensus guidelines. Thirteen clinical experts were involved in a modified Delphi consensus process to develop the guidelines and treatment algorithms. Overall management strategies include appropriate severity assessment of disease and comorbidities, multimodal therapy with systemic and local treatments, and evidence-based progression along the therapeutic ladder in the event of inadequate response. Sequential monotherapy with antibiotics and/or single agent therapy is discouraged and aggressive treatment of moderate to severe disease to capture the window of opportunity is highly emphasised. Specific considerations in the setting of disease comorbidities, pregnancy and breastfeeding are also addressed. Overall, the complex nature of HS requires a complex and multimodal therapeutic response with medical, physical and surgical therapies to achieve best patient outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":8638,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Dermatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142692524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Harmeet K Bhullar, Friyana Bhabha, Chris McCormack, H Miles Prince
{"title":"Complete skin remission of Sneddon-Wilkinson disease with acalabrutinib.","authors":"Harmeet K Bhullar, Friyana Bhabha, Chris McCormack, H Miles Prince","doi":"10.1111/ajd.14386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajd.14386","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sneddon-Wilkinson (SW) disease is rare condition which typically occurs in the context of a monoclonal immunoglobulin and treatment options have not been well studied. Here we present a case of a 65-year-old female with SW with underlying, otherwise indolent, lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (LPL) with an IgA paraprotein, who achieved a complete skin remission with the administration of the Bruton Tyrosine Kinase inhibitor (BTKi), acalabrutinib.</p>","PeriodicalId":8638,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Dermatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142680691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bengu Nisa Akay, Christopher Earl, Tracey Zeelie, Tony Dicker, Simon Clark, Cliff Rosendahl
{"title":"Melanomas on the dorsum of the hand are extremely rare: A series of seven cases with clinical and dermatoscopic images.","authors":"Bengu Nisa Akay, Christopher Earl, Tracey Zeelie, Tony Dicker, Simon Clark, Cliff Rosendahl","doi":"10.1111/ajd.14394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajd.14394","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Melanomas on the dorsum of the hand are exceedingly rare, with limited documentation in medical literature. This report presents seven cases of dorsal hand and finger melanomas, encompassing patients from Australia, New Zealand and Turkey, predominantly women with a mean age of 53 years. The majority were invasive, with a mean Breslow thickness of 1.1 mm and none were of lentigo maligna subtype. The rarity of dorsal hand melanomas prompts speculation into potential protective factors unique to this site, challenging existing knowledge on melanoma aetiology and sun exposure.</p>","PeriodicalId":8638,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Dermatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142680694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laxmi Iyengar, Patrick Hosking, Joel Dowsett, John Su
{"title":"Expression of JAK/STAT signalling in bullous pemphigoid.","authors":"Laxmi Iyengar, Patrick Hosking, Joel Dowsett, John Su","doi":"10.1111/ajd.14389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajd.14389","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the present study, we characterise the expression of JAK/STAT signalling in Bullous Pemphigoid (BP). Punch biopsy specimens of normal skin, lesional and perilesional skin of patients diagnosed with biopsy proven BP were utilised for immunoperoxidase labelling with commercially available antibodies for Phosphorylated STAT 1,2,3,5A and 6 (Genesearch, USA). Quantitative analysis demonstrated that in comparison to normal skin, phosphorylated STAT 2, 3, 5A and 6 were overexpressed in BP.</p>","PeriodicalId":8638,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Dermatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142680692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is tofacitinib monotherapy also effective for the treatment of Acrodermatitis continua of Hallopeau?","authors":"Danxiang Shen, Di Jin, Zhimin Lin, Fanzhang Meng, Chen Li, Zhenhua Ying","doi":"10.1111/ajd.14384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajd.14384","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8638,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Dermatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142680693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eugene Tan, Catherine Scarff, Rebecca B Saunderson, H Peter Soyer, Fiona Bruce
{"title":"Location matters! Optimizing venue selection and attendance format to lower the carbon footprint of air travel to the Australasian College of Dermatologists ASM.","authors":"Eugene Tan, Catherine Scarff, Rebecca B Saunderson, H Peter Soyer, Fiona Bruce","doi":"10.1111/ajd.14381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajd.14381","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8638,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Dermatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142613936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarah L Becker, Gregory S Phillips, Jesse Keller, Radhika Sheth, Stephanie Egge, Stephanie Mengden Koon, Alex G Ortega-Loayza
{"title":"Leishmaniasis masquerading as pyoderma gangrenosum in a non-endemic area: A case report.","authors":"Sarah L Becker, Gregory S Phillips, Jesse Keller, Radhika Sheth, Stephanie Egge, Stephanie Mengden Koon, Alex G Ortega-Loayza","doi":"10.1111/ajd.14385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajd.14385","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) can be difficult to diagnose, leading to diagnostic delay which affects patient outcomes and increases health care utilization. Among different scenarios of diagnostic delay, atypical infections can mimic PG. Here, we present a case of extensive cutaneous leishmaniasis initially misdiagnosed as the superficial granulomatous variant of PG and describe diagnostic clues to aid in differentiation.</p>","PeriodicalId":8638,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Dermatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142613918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A reply to: 'Melanoma documented arising in an involuting naevus 3 years after cessation of monitoring'.","authors":"Miranda Wallace, Jim Muir","doi":"10.1111/ajd.14382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajd.14382","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8638,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Dermatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142581935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re: The risk of psychiatric disorders in finasteride users with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and androgenetic alopecia (AGA): A population-based case-control study.","authors":"Keng Chen, Samuel Zagarella","doi":"10.1111/ajd.14380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajd.14380","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8638,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Dermatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142567553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}