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Unmet Medical Needs in Chronic, Non-communicable Inflammatory Skin Diseases
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An estimated 20-25% of the population is affected by chronic, non-communicable inflammatory skin diseases. Chronic skin inflammation has many causes. Among the most frequent chronic inflammatory skin diseases are atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, urticaria, lichen planus, and hidradenitis suppurativa, driven by a complex interplay of genetics and environmental factors. Autoimmunity is another important cause of chronic skin inflammation. The autoimmune response may be mainly T cell driven, such as in alopecia areata or vitiligo, or B cell driven in chronic spontaneous urticaria, pemphigus and pemphigoid diseases. Rare causes of chronic skin inflammation are autoinflammatory diseases, or rheumatic diseases, such as cutaneous lupus erythematosus or dermatomyositis. Whilst we have seen a significant improvement in diagnosis and treatment, several challenges remain. Especially for rarer causes of chronic skin inflammation, early diagnosis is often missed because of low awareness and lack of diagnostics. Systemic immunosuppression is the treatment of choice for almost all of these diseases. Adverse events due to immunosuppression, insufficient therapeutic responses and relapses remain a challenge. For atopic dermatitis and psoriasis, a broad spectrum of innovative treatments has been developed. However, treatment responses cannot be predicted so far. Hence, development of (bio)markers allowing selection of specific medications for individual patients is needed. Given the encouraging developments during the past years, we envision that many of these challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic inflammatory skin diseases will be thoroughly addressed in the future.
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- Ujiie, H., Rosmarin, D., Schön, M. P., Ständer, S., Boch, K., Metz, M., Maurer, M., Thaci, D., Schmidt, E., Cole, C., Amber, K. T., Didona, D., Hertl, M., Recke, A., Graßhoff, H., Hackel, A., Schumann, A., Riemekasten, G., Bieber, K., Sprow, G., Dan, J., Zillikens, D., Sezin, T., Christiano, A. M., Wolk, K., Sabat, R., Kridin, K., Werth, V. P., & Ludwig, R. J.
- Affiliations
- Hokkaido University (JP)
- Tufts Medical Center (US)
- Universitätsmedizin Göttingen (DE)
- University Hospital Münster (DE)
- University of Lübeck (DE)
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
- Rush University Medical Center (US)
- Philipps University of Marburg (DE)
- Philadelphia VA Medical Center (US)
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center (US)
- Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE)
- Bar-Ilan University (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Ludwig, Ralf J.
- ORCID
- Ujiie, Hideyuki
- Rosmarin, David
- Schön, Michael P.
- Ständer, Sonja
- Boch, Katharina
- Metz, Martin
- Maurer, Marcus
- Schmidt, Enno
- Cole, Connor
- Amber, Kyle T.
- Didona, Dario
- Hertl, Michael
- Recke, Andreas
- Graßhoff, Hanna
- Hackel, Alexander
- Riemekasten, Gabriela
- Bieber, Katja
- Dan, Joshua
- Zillikens, Detlef
- Sezin, Tanya
- Christiano, Angela M.
- Wolk, Kerstin
- Sabat, Robert
- Kridin, Khalaf
- Werth, Victoria P.
- Ludwig, Ralf J.
- Venue
- Frontiers in Medicine
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2022-06-09
- Volume
- 9
- Pages
- 875492-875492
- ISSN
- 2296-858X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC9218547
- OpenAlex
- W4285740668
- Cited by
- 158
- References
- 389
- Citations by year
- 2026: 20 · 2025: 40 · 2024: 49 · 2023: 37 · 2022: 12
- FWCI
- 6.14
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- GoeScholar The Publication Server of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (EXC 2167, FOR 2497, FOR 2690, RI/1056-11,, SFB 1526)
- National Institutes of Health (R01AR071653, R01AR076766)
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (CRSII5_202301/1)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Dermatology › Dermatology and Skin Diseases
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Psoriasis: Treatment and Pathogenesis
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Rheumatology › Systemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases
- Keywords
- chronic inflammatory skin disease, unmet medical needs, atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, urticaria, lichen planus, hidradenitis suppurativa, alopecia areata, vitiligo, pemphigus, pemphigoid diseases, cutaneous lupus erythematosus, dermatomyositis, autoinflammatory disease, systemic immunosuppression, biomarkers, treatment response prediction, early diagnosis
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