The wound/burn guidelines - 4: Guidelines for the management of skin ulcers associated with connective tissue disease/vasculitis

• Published in: Journal of dermatology Vol. 43; no. 7; pp. 729 - 757
• Main Authors: Fujimoto, Manabu, Asano, Yoshihide, Ishii, Takayuki, Ogawa, Fumihide, Kawakami, Tamihiro, Kodera, Masanari, Abe, Masatoshi, Isei, Taiki, Ito, Takaaki, Inoue, Yuji, Imafuku, Shinichi, Irisawa, Ryokichi, Ohtsuka, Masaki, Ohtsuka, Mikio, Kadono, Takafumi, Kawaguchi, Masakazu, Kukino, Ryuichi, Kono, Takeshi, Sakai, Keisuke, Takahara, Masakazu, Tanioka, Miki, Nakanishi, Takeshi, Nakamura, Yasuhiro, Hashimoto, Akira, Hasegawa, Minoru, Hayashi, Masahiro, Fujiwara, Hiroshi, Maekawa, Takeo, Matsuo, Koma, Madokoro, Naoki, Yamasaki, Osamu, Yoshino, Yuichiro, Le Pavoux, Andres, Tachibana, Takao, Ihn, Hironobu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2016; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: antiphospholipid antibody syndrome; Antithrombins - therapeutic use; Calcinosis - complications; Calcinosis - diagnosis; Calcinosis - therapy; Calcium Channel Blockers - therapeutic use; Connective Tissue Diseases - complications; Dapsone - therapeutic use; dermatomyositis; Endothelin Receptor Antagonists - therapeutic use; Glucocorticoids - therapeutic use; Humans; Immunosuppressive Agents - therapeutic use; Leukapheresis; Phosphodiesterase 5 Inhibitors - therapeutic use; Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors - therapeutic use; Prostaglandins - therapeutic use; rheumatoid arthritis; Skin Ulcer - drug therapy; Skin Ulcer - etiology; Skin Ulcer - surgery; systemic lupus erythematosus; Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha - antagonists & inhibitors; Ulcers; vasculitis; Vasculitis - complications; systemic lupus erythematosus; dermatomyositis; antiphospholipid antibody syndrome; vasculitis; rheumatoid arthritis
• ISSN: 0385-2407; 1346-8138
• DOI: 10.1111/1346-8138.13275

The Japanese Dermatological Association prepared guidelines focused on the treatment of skin ulcers associated with connective tissue disease/vasculitis practical in clinical settings of dermatological care. Skin ulcers associated with connective tissue diseases or vasculitis occur on the background of a wide variety of diseases including, typically, systemic sclerosis but also systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), dermatomyositis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), various vasculitides and antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS). Therefore, in preparing the present guidelines, we considered diagnostic/therapeutic approaches appropriate for each of these disorders to be necessary and developed algorithms and clinical questions for systemic sclerosis, SLE, dermatomyositis, RA, vasculitis and APS.