Efficacy and safety of secukinumab in a psoriatic patient affected by comorbid metabolic disorders.
Graziella BabinoElisabetta FulgioneCaterina Mariarosaria GiorgioMarina AgozzinoRoberto AlfanoGiuseppe ArgenzianoPublished in: Dermatologic therapy (2019)
Psoriasis is a common, chronic, immune-mediated disease occurring more frequently in association with comorbid metabolic disorders. The management of patients with multiple organ dysfunction is challenging since the use of all conventional systemic agents is limited or contraindicated. In the last two decades, the introduction of biological drugs has revolutionized treatment paradigms of psoriasis and enabled numerous patients to achieve disease control with an acceptable safety profile. We reported for the first time the case of a 66-year-old female psoriatic patient affected by myocardial infarction, hypertension, chronic renal failure, hyperthyroidsm and morbid obesity, who experienced remarkable improvement in skin and joint synthoms and metabolic parameters after 48 weeks of secukinumab monotherapy. In our patient, secukinumab was well tolerated and no side effects have been observed. Our observation suggests that secukinumab could be a safe therapeutic option in patients with organ impairment or failure in which the majority of conventional systemic agents are contraindicated.
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