Treatment of Psoriasis

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Weinberg, Jeffrey M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2008.
• Series: Milestones in Drug Therapy
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Pharmacology.; Dermatology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

Psoriasis is an inherited skin disease that has been diagnosed in 4.5 million adults in the United States. About 10 percent to 30 percent of people with psoriasis also develop psoriatic arthritis, which causes pain, stiffness and swelling in and around the joints. The book reviews the clinical manif...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: History of psoriasis and psoriasis therapy
• The pathophysiology of psoriasis
• Psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis: a clinical review
• Topical therapy I: corticosteroids and vitamin D analogs
• Topical therapy II: retinoids, immunomodulators, and others
• Ultraviolet and laser therapy
• Traditional systemic therapy I: methotrexate and cyclosporine
• Traditional systemic therapy II: retinoids and others (hydroxyurea, thiopurine antimetabolites, mycophenlic acid, sulfasalazine)
• Biologic therapy for psoriasis: an overview of infliximab, etanercept, adalimumab, efalizumab, and alefacept
• Biologic and oral therapies in development for the treatment of psoriasis
• Quality of life issues in psoriasis.