Successful treatment of severe atopic dermatitis with calcitriol and paricalcitol in an 8-year-old girl
- Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting children and adolescence. The traditional therapeutic options for AD, including emollients topically and immune modulatory agents systemically focusing on reducing skin inflammation and restoring the function of the epidermal barrier, are proven ineffective in many cases. Several studies have linked vitamin D supplementation with either a decreased risk to develop AD or a clinical improvement of the symptoms of AD patients. In this report, we present a girl with severe AD who under adequate supplementation with cholecalciferol was treated with calcitriol and subsequently with paricalcitol. She had significant improvement—almost healing of her skin lesions within 2 months, a result sustained for more than 3 years now. Because of hypercalciuria as a side effect from calcitriol therapy, treatment was continued with paricalcitol, a vitamin D analogue used in secondary hyperparathyroidism in chronic kidney disease. Calcitriol therapy may be considered as a safe and efficacious treatment option for patients with severe AD, particularly for those with refractory AD, under monitoring for possible side effects. Treatment with paricalcitol resolves hypercalciuria, is safe, and should be further investigated as an alternative treatment of atopic dermatitis and possibly other diseases of autoimmune origin.
Author: | Christina BothouORCiD, Alexis Alexopoulos, Eleni Dermitzaki, Kleanthis Kleanthous, Anastasios Papadimitriou, George Mastorakos, Dimitrios Papadimitriou |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-465939 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/9643543 |
ISSN: | 2090-6811 |
ISSN: | 2090-6803 |
Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30034905 |
Parent Title (English): | Case reports in pediatrics |
Publisher: | Hindawi |
Place of publication: | New York, NY |
Contributor(s): | Ashraf Soliman |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2018 |
Date of first Publication: | 2018/06/24 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2018/09/04 |
Volume: | 2018 |
Issue: | Art. 9643543 |
Page Number: | 6 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 5 |
Note: | Copyright © 2018 Christina Bothou et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
HeBIS-PPN: | 437850706 |
Institutes: | Medizin / Medizin |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |