The AJMC® Atopic Dermatitis compendium is a comprehensive resource for clinical news and expert insights for the chronic skin condition that typically develops in early childhood.
Recognizing AD Across All Skin Tones
Panelists discuss how atopic dermatitis (AD) presents differently across skin tones, appearing as purple, gray, or barely visible inflammation rather than classic redness, with perifollicular prominence and postinflammatory pigmentation changes being more prominent in patients with darker skin.
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Beyond the Itch: The Full Spectrum of AD Symptoms and Their Impact on Patients
Panelists discuss how atopic dermatitis (AD) extends far beyond pruritus to include pain, sleep disturbances, psychosocial stigma, and quality-of-life impacts that affect patients’ work, school, and daily functioning regardless of disease severity.
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Bridging the Gaps: Health Care Professional Knowledge Gaps in AD Pathophysiology
Panelists discuss how health care professionals face educational gaps in understanding atopic dermatitis (AD) immunopathogenesis, with advanced practice providers (APPS) particularly needing additional training outside standard curricula to master biologic therapy selection.
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Understanding Atopic Dermatitis as an Immune-Mediated Disease
Panelists discuss how atopic dermatitis involves complex inflammatory and neuronal pathways, with IL-4, IL-13, and IL-31 cytokines driving Th2-mediated inflammation that varies across different racial populations.
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Roflumilast Cream 0.05% Durable, Safe for Younger Pediatric Patients
August 15th 2025The INTEGUMENT-OLE study is an open-label extension analysis that followed a primary investigation from the phase 3 INTEGUMENT-PED trial, which investigated the efficacy and safety of once-daily roflumilast cream 0.05% for atopic dermatitis in children aged 2 to 5 years.
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Long-Term Lebrikizumab Provides Sustained Skin Clearance in Atopic Dermatitis
August 5th 2025In this subanalysis of data from the ADjoin trial of lebrikizumab, the interleukin-13 receptor inhibitor that is also a monoclonal antibody showed itself to be effective over the long term in patients with atopic dermatitis on maintenance therapy.
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Dupilumab Shows Strong Efficacy in SCORAD-Based AD Assessment
July 14th 2025With few real-life studies that have specifically focused on how atopic dermatitis (AD) affects patients living with the chronic inflammatory skin condition in Latin American countries, the present authors investigated dupilumab-related outcomes among 100 patients using SCORing Atopic Dermatitis (SCORAD) index values.
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Pediatric Atopic Dermatitis Linked to Allergy Development
June 13th 2025Outcomes were evaluated among children born between April 1980 and June 2019 by using data from 12 observational birth cohorts from the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes Children’s Respiratory and Environmental Workgroup.
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Patient-Reported Experiences Show Psychological Impact of Atopic Dermatitis on Adolescents
May 22nd 2025The findings, which add to the limited data on the burden of atopic dermatitis on adolescent and pediatric patients, showed differences in what was most bothersome to the younger group of patients.
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Dr Lawrence Eichenfield Hopeful for New Pediatric AD Treatment Option
April 16th 2024Lawrence Eichenfield, MD, chief of pediatric and adolescent dermatology at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego, shared the implications of the findings from INTEGUMENT-PED, the phase 3 study assessing the efficacy and safety of once-daily roflumilast cream 0.05% in pediatric patients with atopic dermatitis (AD), for future clinical practice.
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