Skin Disease and Inflammation: Current Treatment and Future Options

A special issue of Therapeutics (ISSN 2813-9909).

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Dear Colleagues,

Outstanding progress has been made in recent decades in dermatology, especially regarding inflammatory skin diseases, which are more common and tend to have a significant impact on patients' quality of life. Chronic inflammatory diseases represent a therapeutic challenge. Today, we have weapons available, as well as many new drugs in the pipeline for various conditions that had no therapy for years.

I would like to invite you to take part in this Special Issue for the journal of Therapeutics of which I am the editor.

The aim of this Special Issue is to publish scientific articles on a variety of topics, but above all, to focus on new therapies in the medical field, biological therapies, target therapies and innovative therapies with exciting data that can help the entire scientific community. The possibility of collecting all this in various publications is the purpose of this Special Issue.

I look forward to receiving your contributions and thank you for your support.

Dr. Annunziata Dattola
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Keywords

  • eczema
  • psoriasis
  • hidradenitis suppurativa
  • alopecia areata
  • acne
  • atopic dermatitis
  • urticaria
  • prurigo nodularis
  • lichen

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Using Conjoint Analysis to Elicit Benefit–Risk Preferences for Different Treatment Options Among Psoriasis Patients Receiving Systemic Therapy
by Antonios Tsartsarakis, Eleftheria Tampouratzi, Christos Moulias, Konstantinos Sfaelos and Vassilis Aletras
Therapeutics 2025, 2(4), 19; https://doi.org/10.3390/therapeutics2040019 (registering DOI) - 31 Oct 2025
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Background: Psoriasis has a huge impact on a patient’s life. Treatment dissatisfaction and non-adherence are common among patients with psoriasis, partly due to discordance between individual preferences and recommended treatments. The modern strategy for psoriasis should be focused on human-centric treatment that recognizes [...] Read more.
Background: Psoriasis has a huge impact on a patient’s life. Treatment dissatisfaction and non-adherence are common among patients with psoriasis, partly due to discordance between individual preferences and recommended treatments. The modern strategy for psoriasis should be focused on human-centric treatment that recognizes the needs and preferences of patients with a goal for safe, effective, quality and acceptable health services for a lifetime. The aim of this analysis was to capture patients’ preferences with moderate-to-severe psoriasis regarding various treatment attributes. Methods: A specialized questionnaire containing four attributes with three levels, each, was used, followed by an orthogonal plan based on conjoint analysis. Nine combinations of therapeutic scenarios were produced as a result, to investigate participants’ preferences. Respondents were asked to rank alternatives from best to worst. Results: The risk of developing pneumonia or other serious infections within a decade seems to be higher in patients with an implied assigned value of 37. The second attribute was the type and frequency of the administration with a value of 27, followed by the treatment effectiveness with great improvement of body surface with a value of 25. The lowest utility (11) was the sustainability of early remission of psoriasis. Conclusions: Psoriasis patients want safe, effective and easy to administer treatments. Full article
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