Dermatology News

After a healthy pregnancy, labor and delivery — complicated only by late prenatal care beginning at 30 weeks when the mother immigrated to Texas from Mexico — a vigorous full-term newborn male is born. However, he was immediately transferred to the neonatal ICU for evaluation and further management of some dramatic, unusual skin lesions.

A 15 year-old girl presented to our pediatric dermatology clinic with a 1-month history of a “rash all over.” The rash started on the abdomen and spread to involve the chest, back, arms and legs with sparing of the face, palms and soles (Figure). The patient complains of moderate pruritus. Two weeks before the rash started, she had a sore throat and fever of 101.5°F for 3 days and a “sandpaper-like” rash on her trunk and arms. Her pediatrician performed a throat culture and then prescribed a 10-day course of oral amoxicillin, which made her feel much better. The family is not sure what the throat culture showed. She denies cough, headache, nausea, rhinorrhea, joint aches or pains and abnormal movements.

Health Canada has approved Stelara for treating moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis in adolescents who are intolerant to or have been inadequately controlled by other systemic therapies or phototherapies, according to a press release from Janssen.

The FDA has issued a warning to consumers and physicians about the risk for eye and skin injuries from products that include lasers, according to a MedWatch safety alert.

Patients with infantile hemangioma had better responses and greater benefit with propranolol treatment compared with captopril, according to recently published study results.

The FDA today announced proposed rules in the use of sunlamp products that include restricting tanning bed use to individuals aged 18 years and older.

A 14-year-old boy with a significant medical history of acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) was admitted awaiting blood count recovery after chemotherapy. You were consulted for evaluation of a papule on his gums. The patient has reported poor appetite over the past few months while receiving chemotherapy for treatment of his leukemia. He was fatigued, but was otherwise behaving normally. He denied night sweats, fever, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, joint pain or dysuria. However, the patient did report that his gums had been bleeding easily when he brushed his teeth.

Patients who received melatonin had improved atopic dermatitis management and time to sleep-onset, according to recent research published in JAMA Pediatrics.

A panel of Canadian researchers has published a new evidence-based clinical practice guideline for management of acne that provides updated recommendations for methods of evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of acne in children and adults based on severity.

Results of a systematic review and meta-analysis found that monthly laboratory testing was not supported for patients receiving standard doses of oral isotretinoin for the treatment of acne.