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Management of chronic hand eczema
Author(s) -
Diepgen Thomas L.,
Agner Tove,
Aberer Werner,
BerthJones John,
Cambazard Frédéric,
Elsner Peter,
McFadden John,
Coenraads Pieter Jan
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
contact dermatitis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1600-0536
pISSN - 0105-1873
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0536.2007.01179.x
Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care medicine , epidemiology , randomized controlled trial , hand eczema , chronic disease , disease , disease management , medline , dermatology , allergy , surgery , contact dermatitis , pathology , immunology , parkinson's disease , political science , law
Hand eczema (HE) is one of the most frequent skin diseases and has often a chronically relapsing course with a poor prognosis resulting in a high social and economic impact for the individual and the society. In this article, we highlight the results of an expert workshop on the ‘management of severe chronic hand eczema’ with the focus on the epidemiology, the burden of severe HE, its classification and diagnostic procedures, and the current status of treatment options according to an evidence‐based approach (randomized controlled clinical trials, RCTs). We conclude that despite the abundance of topical and systemic treatment options, disease management in patients with severe chronic HE is frequently inadequate. There is a strong need for RCTs of existing and new treatment options based on clearly diagnosed subtypes of HE and its severity.