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ReviewAmerican journal of clinical dermatology2025

Disease Modification in Psoriasis: Future Prospects for Long-Term Remission.

David Ranzinger, Kilian Eyerich

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Review in American journal of clinical dermatology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

David RanzingerDepartment of Dermatology, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Hauptstraße 7, 79104, Freiburg, Germany. david.ranzinger@uniklinik-freiburg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-1337-3836
Kilian EyerichDepartment of Dermatology, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Hauptstraße 7, 79104, Freiburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0094-2674

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A subset of patients with moderate-to-severe psoriasis show long-term remission after drug withdrawal lasting well beyond several half-life times of the drug, particularly following effective treatment with modern biologics such as interleukin-23 inhibitors. Furthermore, evidence suggests that the development of comorbidities, including psoriatic arthritis, a key comorbidity causing irreversible damage, can be prevented or delayed in a subgroup of patients with psoriasis receiving these therapies. This implies that psoriasis treatments may alter the underlying disease mechanisms in some individuals, extending beyond their direct pharmacological effects. However, this concept of disease modification remains controversial, as predicting the natural clinical course of an individual patient with psoriasis is challenging, and typically, no permanent clinically detectable changes occur in psoriatic skin inflammation. This article aims to provide an overview of the current evidence on disease modification in psoriasis and discusses clinical and molecular markers that could be used to predict or monitor disease modification in psoriasis.

Indexed as

Biological ProductsDermatologic AgentsPsoriasisArthritis, PsoriaticBiomarkersHumansInterleukin-23Remission InductionSeverity of Illness IndexTreatment OutcomeBiological ProductsBiomarkersDermatologic AgentsInterleukin-23

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PMID40329069
PMCPMC12227372

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