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A Comprehensive Guide to Hidradenitis Suppurativa

  • 1st Edition - October 20, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Vivian Y. Shi, Jennifer L. Hsiao, Michelle A. Lowes, Iltefat H. Hamzavi
  • Language: English

Despite being a relatively straightforward clinical diagnosis, recognition of hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is highly variable, and clinical management is challenging and… Read more

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Despite being a relatively straightforward clinical diagnosis, recognition of hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is highly variable, and clinical management is challenging and complex. Written by the world’s leading experts in HS, A Comprehensive Guide to Hidradenitis Suppurativa brings together up-to-date scientific evidence on the diagnosis, patho-mechanisms, comorbidities, and multi-faceted medical and surgical interventions for this debilitating condition—in one convenient reference.

Key features

  • Covers every aspect of this complex skin disorder: etiology, pathophysiology, epidemiology, medical, alternative therapies, a range of surgical options, laser treatments, and comorbidities.

  • Discusses specific patient populations such as children, women of childbearing potential, and pregnant and breastfeeding women. Because HS has higher prevalence in people of skin of color, this patient population is well-documented in the text.

  • Offers insights into multi-disciplinary care, patient support and education, patients at risk for rapid disease progression, and clinical and translational research.

  • Features procedural videos covering laser therapies, de-roofing procedures, excision techniques, cryoinsufflation techniques, and special wound care material selection and techniques.

  • Includes promising future drugs and therapies that are under investigation.

  • Identifies evidence gaps that provide a springboard to the future innovations in HS care to come.

  • Edited and authored by global experts who have helped co-author U.S., Canadian, and European guidelines on HS.

  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Readership

Dermatology, Dermatology residents

Table of contents

Foreword

1 Historic Perspectives

2 Epidemiology

3 Clinical Manifestations and Phenotypes

4 Differential Diagnosis

5 Histopathology

6 Imaging Modalities

7 Clinical Evaluation

8 Comorbidities and Systemic Associations

9 Disease Complications

10 Follicular Occlusion and Inflammation

11 Microbiome

12 Genetics and Epigenetics

13 Disease Evaluation & Outcome Measures

14 Overview and Comparison of Management Guidelines

15 Topical Therapeutics

16 Systemic Antibiotics

17 Non-Antibiotic Systemic Therapeutics for HS

18 Targeted Therapeutics: Biologics, Small Molecules

19 Pain and Itch Control

20 Wound Care

21 Quality of Life

22 Office-Based Non-Excision Procedures

23 Surgical Excisions for Hidradenitis Suppurativa

24 Office-based excision for hidradenitis suppurativa: a surgeon's decades-long experience

25 Laser and Light-Based Treatments

26 Other Procedural Treatments

27 Lifestyle Modifications

28 Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)

29 Pediatrics

30 Skin of Color

31 Hidradenitis Suppurativa in Women

32 HS Action Plan

32 HS Multi-Disciplinary Approach

33 HS Support Groups

34 Pipeline Therapeutics

35 The Future

Review quotes

"Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is an extremely distressing dermatologic disorder. It is also difficult to treat. Often the diagnosis is not made until many years have passed, and all the while, patients suffer, developing painful abscesses, sinus tracts draining pus, and scarring. This reference book is completely devoted to hidradenitis suppurativa risk factors (genetics, lifestyle, sex, body mass index, etc.) to inform an earlier diagnosis so treatment can be instituted sooner, thus being proactive in reducing chronicity and complications of the disease." ©Doody’s Review Service, 2023, Patricia Wong, MD (Private Practice) Doody's Score: 4 stars!

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 8, 2021
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Vivian Y. Shi

Dr. Vivian Shi is the Director of Clinical Trials and the Eczema Specialty Clinic at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Her research and clinical interests are in complex inflammatory skin conditions, skin barrier repair, transepidermal drug delivery, and integrative dermatology. She was an integral part of the team of researchers characterizing the pathophysiology of atopic dermatitis using a transgenic interleukin-4 mouse model of atopic dermatitis. She has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles, and is on the speaker’s bureau and the steering committee for the U.S. National Eczema Association and is a faculty member of the International Eczema Council. She has served as the principal investigator for numerous industry-sponsored and investigator-initiated clinical and translational studies in eczematous conditions. She regularly speaks in national and international conferences on atopic dermatitis and inflammatory skin conditions. Additionally, she is the recipient of the several prestigious awards and grants.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

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Jennifer L. Hsiao

Jennifer L. Hsiao is the Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology, Director, Hidradenitis Suppurativa Specialty Clinic at the University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology, Director, Hidradenitis Suppurativa Specialty Clinic, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

ML

Michelle A. Lowes

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Clinical Investigation, The Laboratory for Investigative Dermatology, Rockefeller University, New York, New York

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Iltefat H. Hamzavi

Affiliations and expertise
Henry Ford Hospital, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology, Wayne State University SOM; President, HS Foundation, Detroit, Michigan

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