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A role for b-cell-depleting agents in treating psoriatic skin lesions induced by tumor necrosis factor-alpha antagonists: A case report and literature review
Despite recent advances in understanding the pathological pathways, clinical
pattern and management opportunities for new-onset psoriasis as a
paradoxical adverse event in patients receiving TNF inhibitors for their
immune-mediated disorder, there is a subset of patients who are either
partial responders or non-responders, whatever the therapeutic scenario. We
present the case of new-onset psoriasis and severe alopecia development in a
case study of long-standing rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treated with
adalimumab (ADA) and leflunomide. Since skin lesions and alopecia are
resistant to the classic protocol (topical treatment, ADA discontinuation)
and RA becomes highly active, rituximab (RTX) was started. Dramatic
improvement in joint disease, total remission of alopecia and partial
remission of pustular psoriasis were described after the first RTX cycle.
Although B-cell-depleting agents result in controversial effects on
psoriatic skin lesions, this is the first case of ADA-induced psoriasis and
alopecia that improved under RTX, suggesting a possible role in treating
such a patient population
Pathological gambling in Romanian teenagers. The psychopathology and neuropathology of teenagers
This note briefly describes three performance measures that can be used in business failure prediction models: the unweighted error rate (UER), D-max and the Gini-coefficient. The use of these measures (and the mathematical relationship between them) is illustrated with numerical examples. We hope that this note may help the reader to better understand (and possibly use) these classification criteria