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Successful guselkumab treatment of a refractory psoriasis patient with Graves' disease: a case report.

Xinyi ShaoKun HuangAijun ChenChuan LiuJianxia XiongYun PanXiaoli ChenPing Wang
Published in: The Journal of international medical research (2024)
Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease. It is associated with many autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease and thyroid diseases. Graves' disease (GD) is a common organ-specific autoimmune disease characterized by diffuse goitre and thyrotoxicosis. Management of psoriasis patients with GD is challenging. This current report presents the case of a 34-year-old female patient with refractory psoriasis with GD who was hospitalized for drug eruption and then experienced new-onset erythema and scaling following treatment with adalimumab and secukinumab. Despite the sequential move to phototherapy, tofacitinib and ustekinumab, the erythema and scaling continued unabated and exacerbated. Finally, switching to guselkumab resulted in the psoriasis lesions significantly improving. These findings suggest that guselkumab might be an effective treatment option for refractory psoriasis combined with GD.
Keyphrases
  • rheumatoid arthritis
  • atopic dermatitis
  • oxidative stress
  • systemic lupus erythematosus
  • ankylosing spondylitis
  • soft tissue
  • systemic sclerosis
  • interstitial lung disease