Drug Survival and Clinical Course of Patients with Cancer Treated with Biologic Therapy for Psoriasis.

Patients with treated solid tumors (TST) are a highly heterogeneous and difficult-to-treat population due to the risk of disease progression/recurrence or infection. We conducted an observational, retrospective, single-center study at the Dermatology Clinic of Turin with a focus on the special population of cancer patients with psoriasis treated with biologics. As of July 2023, 52 psoriatic patients with a prior/concomitant history of malignancy had taken biologic drugs.

Drug Survival, Safety, and Effectiveness of Secukinumab for up to 5 Years in Patients with Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis: A Long-Term Real-Life Experience.

Introduction: the selective IL-17 inhibitor secukinumab has demonstrated efficacy and safety in the treatment of moderate-severe psoriasis in recent years.

Objective: evaluate effectiveness and drug survival (DS) of secukinumab in patients with psoriasis for up to 5 years.

Methods: This is a retrospective study on a monocentric cohort of patients with psoriasis on secukinumab evaluating the achievement of PASI100, PASI90, and PASI ≤ 3 and DS analysis up to 260 weeks.

Clinical characteristics and response to biological therapies for inverse psoriasis: a real-life comparison between the therapeutic effects of anti-IL-23 and anti-IL-17 agents.

Background: Inverse psoriasis (IP) is a variant of plaque psoriasis involving flexor surfaces. A clear definition of IP is still lacking. Therapy is based on topical and systemic treatments, including classic systemic drugs and biologic agents, but a well-defined therapeutic strategy is absent.

Drug survival and clinical effectiveness of secukinumab, ixekizumab, brodalumab, guselkumab, risankizumab, tildrakizumab for psoriasis treatment.

Background: Biologics targeting IL-23 and IL-17 show efficacy and safety in the treatment of moderate-to-severe psoriasis.

Objective: To investigate drug survival in patients with psoriasis treated with biologics.

Patients And Methods: We performed a comparative evaluation of the achievement of PASI 90 and PASI ≤ 3 at 16, 28, and 52 weeks along with a DS (drug survival) analysis with IL-17 and IL-23 inhibitors brodalumab, ixekizumab, secukinumab, risankizumab, tildrakizumab, and guselkumab on 1,057 patients.

Guselkumab shows high efficacy and maintenance in the improvement of response until week 48, a real-life study.

Guselkumab is an IL-23 inhibitor that has been demonstrated to be effective and safe for the treatment of moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis in clinical trials. The data pool relating to the use of guselkumab in a real-life setting is still lacking. To evaluate the efficacy and safety of guselkumab in a real-life setting, focusing on predictors of early clinical response, a single-center prospective study was conducted enrolling patients with moderate-to-severe psoriasis.

Risankizumab shows high efficacy and maintenance in improvement of response until week 52.

Risankizumab has been recently approved for moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis; however, real-life studies are scarce. Analysis of possible predictor factors of treatment response are limited to body mass index (BMI) and previous biologic experience. Our objectives were to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of Risankizumab and to investigate on possible predictor factors response.

Dupilumab in HIV-positive patients with atopic dermatitis: a long-term follow-up patient and a literature review.

Dupilumab is an IgG4 human monoclonal antibody licensed for the treatment of moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis. Despite evidence suggesting that T helper type two cytokines can modulate HIV-1 replication and anti-HIV-specific immune responses, impacting on viral reservoirs, HIV-positive patients under immunomodulating therapy have been excluded from clinical trials. We report a 47-year-old HIV-positive man with late-onset severe atopic dermatitis, treated with dupilumab and followed up for 27 months.

Misuse, consequences and phototoxic skin-related effects of Rutaceae.

Ruta is a common plant growing in Italy and in the Mediterranean area. It has been used in popular tradition with different aims, ranging from therapeutic to esoteric purposes. However, the plant is still used as a common remedy in some of present-day rural and urban communities and it can be found in gardens all over Europe.