Successful management of bullous pemphigoid with dimethyl fumarate therapy: A case report

Aslı Bilgic-Temel, MD; Shilpa Das, MD; Dedee F. Murrell, MA, BMBCh, FAAD, MD, FACD FRCP

International Journal of Women's Dermatology (Jul 2019)

Successful management of bullous pemphigoid with dimethyl fumarate therapy: A case report

Aslı Bilgic-Temel, MD,
Shilpa Das, MD,
Dedee F. Murrell, MA, BMBCh, FAAD, MD, FACD FRCP

Affiliations

Aslı Bilgic-Temel, MD: St George Hospital, Department of Dermatology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Shilpa Das, MD: St George Hospital, Department of Dermatology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Dedee F. Murrell, MA, BMBCh, FAAD, MD, FACD FRCP: St George Hospital, Department of Dermatology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Corresponding Author:

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 5, no. 3
pp. 179 – 180

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A 69-year-old woman affected by multiple sclerosis for 35 years was diagnosed with bullous pemphigoid (BP) and treated successfully with dimethyl fumarate (DMF) at a dose of 120 mg twice per day for 7 days and then increased to 240 mg twice per day after first-line therapies of BP. DMF is now under evaluation with an investigator-initiated prospective controlled trial in patients with BP to determine the efficacy and safety of adjuvant DMF. To our knowledge, this is the first case of BP successfully treated with DMF in the literature. Keywords: Bullous pemphigoid, dimethyl fumarate, multiple sclerosis, therapy

Published in International Journal of Women's Dermatology

ISSN: 2352-6475 (Online)
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Dermatology
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