Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia (Oct 2017)

Algorithm for acne treatment: Ibero-Latin American consensus

  • Ediléia Bagatin,
  • Mercedes Florez-White,
  • María Isabel Arias-Gomez,
  • Ana Kaminsky

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20177003
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 92, no. 5
pp. 689 – 693

Abstract

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Abstract: Acne is a chronic, immune-mediated, inflammatory disease with high prevalence among adolescents. By compromising face, thorax and back, with the risk of permanent scars, it has a negative impact on the quality of life. Effective, safe and early treatment is the key to remission, while decreasing the risk of physical and/or emotional sequelae. The Iberian-Latin American Group of Acne Studies joined professionals with expertise and developed a practical therapeutic algorithm, adapted to the reality of Latin American countries, Spain and Portugal. This article intends to disseminate it with an updated review on a rational, safe and effective acne treatment.

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