Mast cells and type I interferon responses in the skin of patients with juvenile dermatomyositis: are current therapies just scratching the surface?
Mast cells and type I interferon responses in the skin of patients with juvenile dermatomyositis: are current therapies just scratching the surface?
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幼年皮肌炎患者皮肤中的肥大细胞和 I 型干扰素反应:当前的治疗方法只是触及表面吗?
DOI:
10.1002/art.27525
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发表时间:
2010
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通讯作者:
Miller,FrederickW
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作者:
Rider,LisaG;Miller,FrederickW
Dermatomyositis (DM) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by chronic inflammation in proximal skeletal muscles, skin and other target organs. Many physicians focus on the weakness and the resulting physical dysfunction as the most disabling features of DM and therapeutic trials often have been directed at improving these manifestations. Subsequently, the skin disease is often neglected by treating physicians as a less severe manifestation of illness and is often not the focus of therapy.Nonetheless, despite the second-hand status often afforded the skin disease of DM, it can be as debilitating as the muscle disease. Patients with adult and juvenile DM often experience a variety of both sun-exposed and non-sun-exposed skin rashes, including erythematous and vasculopathic lesions (1; 2). Pruritus is a frequent manifestation of active DM skin disease that adversely impacts quality of life (3). Incompletely treated cutaneous manifestations can lead to dystrophic calcification in the skin and subcutaneous tissues in up to 25% of juvenile-onset DM patients and 15% of adults with DM (4). Skin atrophy, dyspigmentation and lipodystrophy, the loss of subcutaneous tissue resulting in metabolic sequelae of insulin resistance and hyperlipidemia, are common outcomes of prior inflammation in the skin and subcutaneous tissue (4; 5).