Oral Minocycline in Treatment of Cutaneous Sarcoidosis

• Autores: Talora Steen, Joseph C. English
• Localización: JAMA Dermatology, ISSN 2168-6068, Vol. 149, Nº. 6, 2013, págs. 758-760
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Currently, therapeutic techniques used to treat cutaneous sarcoidosis rely on limited data from evidenced-based research.1- 2 Bachelez et al3 conducted a prospective study in which 10 of 12 patients showed improvement after minocycline therapy, and Antonovich and Callen4 reported the case of 1 woman who was successfully treated with doxycycline. On the basis of these encouraging reports, our clinic began to use minocycline, a commonly used anti-inflammatory acne therapy that does not require laboratory monitoring, as a first-line treatment for cutaneous sarcoidosis. The present retrospective study sought to evaluate our experience with minocycline treatment and to compare its effectiveness across sex and race.