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Constantin T, Foeldvari I, Pain CE, Pálinkás A, Höger P, Moll M, Nemkova D, Weibel L, Laczkovszki M, Clements P, Torok KS. Development of minimum standards of care for juvenile localized scleroderma. Eur J Pediatr 2018; 177:961-977. [PMID: 29728839 DOI: 10.1007/s00431-018-3144-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2017] [Revised: 02/25/2018] [Accepted: 04/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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UNLABELLED Juvenile localized scleroderma (jLS), also known as morphea, is an orphan disease. Pediatric guidelines regarding diagnosis, assessment, and management are lacking.Our objective was to develop minimum standards of care for diagnosis, assessment, and management of jLS. A systematic review was undertaken to establish the pediatric evidence for assessment and monitoring of jLS. An expert panel, including members of the Pediatric Rheumatology European Society (PRES) Scleroderma Working Group, were invited to a consensus meeting where recommendations were developed based on evidence graded by the systematic review and, where evidence was lacking, consensus opinion. A nominal technique was used where 75% consensus was taken as agreement. Recommendations for diagnosis, assessment, and management were developed. Due to a lack of pediatric evidence, these were primarily consensus driven. Careful assessment for extra-cutaneous manifestations including synovitis, brain involvement, and uveitis were key features together with joint assessments between Dermatology and Rheumatology to improve and standardize care. CONCLUSION Management of jLS is varied. These recommendations should help provide standardization of assessment and care for those with this rare and potentially debilitating condition. What is Known: • Children with juvenile localized scleroderma (jLS) are managed by a number of specialties including pediatric rheumatologists and dermatologists, sometimes in shared clinics. Studies have shown that management varies considerably and that there are notable differences between specialties [1]. • There is very little published guidance on management of jLS. What is new: • These recommendations aim to standardize diagnosis, assessment, and management through review of pediatric evidence and consensus agreement. • Joint review of patients by both pediatric rheumatologists and dermatologists is recommended.
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- Hamburger Zentrum für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie, Hamburg, Germany
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- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Paediatric Dermatology, Catholic Children's Hospital Wilhelmstift, Hamburg, Germany
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- University Childrens Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Division of Rheumatology, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Rodríguez Y, Rojas M, Gershwin ME, Anaya JM. Tick-borne diseases and autoimmunity: A comprehensive review. J Autoimmun 2018; 88:21-42. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jaut.2017.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2017] [Revised: 11/20/2017] [Accepted: 11/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Yazdanpanah MJ, Sharifi N, Khooei A, Banihashemi M, Khaje-Daluee M, Shamsi A, Ghazvini K. Frequency of Borrelia in Morphea Lesion by Polymerase Chain Reaction in Northeast of Iran. Jundishapur J Microbiol 2015; 8:e19730. [PMID: 26468360 PMCID: PMC4601107 DOI: 10.5812/jjm.19730v2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2014] [Revised: 08/19/2014] [Accepted: 08/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Background: The etiology of morphea is still unknown. Borrelia spp. as a causative agent of morphea has been discussed since 1985, but the relationship remains uncertain. Objectives: We aimed to find the frequency of Borrelia in morphea lesions by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in northeast of Iran. Patients and Methods: Sixty six patients with morphea were prospectively included in the present study. For each patient, formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue blocks of skin lesion biopsies were examined for Borrelia spp. DNA using PCR. Results: No Borrelia DNA was detected by PCR in skin lesions of patients with morphea. Conclusions: The result of this study showed no relationship between Borrelia infection and morphea lesions and in other word indicated that morphea, at least in Iran, is not caused by Borrelia spp.
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- Mohhamad Javad Yazdanpanah
- Department of Dermatology, Research Center for Skin Diseases and Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Ghaem Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran
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- Department of Pathology, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran
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- Department of Pathology, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran
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- Department of Dermatology, Research Center for Skin Diseases and Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Ghaem Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran
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- Department of Social Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran
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- Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Ibn-e-Sina Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran
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- Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, Department of Microbiology and Virology, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran
- Corresponding author: Kiarash Ghazvini, Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, Department of Microbiology and Virology, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran. Tel: +98-5118012589; +98-9151248938, Fax: +98-5118409612, E-mail:
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Butareva MM, Znamenskaya LF, Muradyan NL, Brezgina OV, Afromeyeva DM. Diagnostics and treatment of erythema chronicum migrans Aftselius Lipschutz in a female patient with localized scleroderma under the condition of daytime hospital. VESTNIK DERMATOLOGII I VENEROLOGII 2013. [DOI: 10.25208/vdv621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022] Open
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The authors describe a case study of the primary stage of the Lyme disease erythema chronicum migrans in a female patient suffering from localized scleroderma. They review principal pathogenetic mechanisms of the onset and potential ethiological relationship between the Lyme disease (borreliosis) and localized scleroderma.
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Goodlad JR, Davidson MM, Gordon P, Billington R, Ho-Yen DO. Morphoea and Borrelia burgdorferi: results from the Scottish Highlands in the context of the world literature. Mol Pathol 2002; 55:374-8. [PMID: 12456775 PMCID: PMC1187274 DOI: 10.1136/mp.55.6.374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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AIMS Previous studies investigating the link between infection with Borrelia burgdorferi and morphoea have produced conflicting results. Often, these studies have been undertaken in patients from different regions or countries, and using methods of varying sensitivity for detecting Borrelia burgdorferi infection. This study aimed to establish whether a relation could be demonstrated in the Highlands of Scotland, an area with endemic Lyme disease, with the use of a sensitive method for detecting the organism. METHODS The study was performed on biopsies of lesional skin taken from 16 patients from the Highlands of Scotland with typical clinical features of morphoea. After histological confirmation of the diagnosis, a nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using primers to a unique conserved region of the Borrelia burgdorferi flagellin gene was performed on DNA extracts from each biopsy. A literature search was also performed for comparable studies. RESULTS None of the 16 patients had documented clinical evidence of previous infection with B burgdorferi. DNA was successfully extracted from 14 of the 16 cases but all of these were negative using PCR for B burgdorferi specific DNA, despite successful amplification of appropriate positive controls in every test. The results were compared with those of other documented studies. CONCLUSIONS Examination of the literature suggests that there is a strong geographical relation between B burgdorferi and morphoea. These results, in which no such association was found, indicate that morphoea may not be associated with the subspecies of B burgdorferi found in the Highlands of Scotland.
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- J R Goodlad
- Department of Pathology, Highland Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, Raigmore Hospital, Inverness IV2 3UJ, UK.
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The aetiology of morphoea and lichen sclerosus et atrophicus is still unknown. Since the detection of Borrelia burgdorferi (B. burgdorferi) as the causative agent of Lyme disease, there has been debate about a possible association between B. burgdorferi and morphoea. Initial serological and cultural studies showed controversial results. The introduction of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) initially suggested an association between B. burgdorferi and morphoea. We reviewed the literature on B. burgdorferi (specific serology, immunohistology, culture, lymphocyte stimulation and DNA detection by PCR) since 1983, using Medline and Current Contents. Histological and immunohistological detection of B. burgdorferi was reported in 0-40% (20 of 82) of the cases with morphoea and in 46-50% (17 of 36) of the cases with lichen sclerosus et atrophicus. Cultivation of spirochetes from lesional skin succeeded in five patients (five of 68) with morphoea, but failed in patients with lichen sclerosus et atrophicus. In Europe and Asia, serological detection of antibodies against B. burgdorferi was described in 0-60% (138 of 609) of patients with morphoea and in 19% (six of 32) in the U.S.A. For lichen sclerosus et atrophicus 0-25% of the published cases (three of 23) in Europe and Asia were seropositive. DNA from B. burgdorferi was detected by PCR in 0-100% (17 of 82) of the tissues of patients with morphoea in Europe and Asia, but not a single case among 98 patients was reported to be positive from the U. S.A. In Europe and Asia, borrelial DNA was detected in 0-100% (nine of 28) of the cases with lichen sclerosus et atrophicus, whereas in the U.S.A. none of 48 patients was positive. There are two possible explanations for these contradictory findings: the most likely is that B. burgdorferi is not a causative agent for morphoea. Another possible explanation could be that a subset of morphoea is caused by a special subspecies of B. burgdorferi that is present in Europe and Asia but does not occur in the U.S.A.
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- B Weide
- Department of Dermatology, Eberhard-Karls-University of Tuebingen, Liebermeisterstrasse 25, D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany
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Farrell AM, Millard PR, Schomberg KH, Wojnarowska F. An infective aetiology for vulval lichen sclerosus re-addressed. Clin Exp Dermatol 1999; 24:479-83. [PMID: 10606954 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2230.1999.00538.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Although there is evidence to support an autoimmune basis for lichen sclerosus, there have also been some studies which suggest an infective aetiology. These include reports of the presence of spirochaetal forms with Steiner silver stains and purplish coccoid forms with Fite stains. We have repeated these studies on vulval biopsies obtained from 16 patients with vulval lichen sclerosus. Using the Steiner silver method we found no evidence of spirochaetal forms in any of the specimens. With the Fite stain we observed purple-staining coccoid forms within the dermis of 13 of the 16 lichen sclerosus specimens. However, these coccoid forms also stained strongly positive with toluidine blue, suggesting they were mast cell granules rather than micro-organisms. We were therefore unable to demonstrate evidence for an infective aetiology in vulval lichen sclerosus, although this cannot yet be excluded. Further work is also needed to understand the significance of mast cells in lichen sclerosus.
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- A M Farrell
- Department of Dermatology, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals, UK
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Scleroderma is a diverse group of conditions which have in common fibrosis of skin and other tissues. Although less common in children than in adults, these conditions are an important cause of morbidity and occasional mortality when they occur in the pediatric population. Children are more likely than adults to develop localized forms of scleroderma, and because of the impact on growth, these can result in major facial or limb asymmetry, flexion contractures, and disability. Management approaches must take into consideration the effect of medications on the child (for example, growth failure and osteoporosis from corticosteroids) as well as the psychosocial impact of chronic illness and physical deformity on the child and family. This article describes the types of scleroderma identified in children, reviews epidemiologic and etiologic factors, and discusses management options. Because this is a rare group of diseases managed by both dermatologists and rheumatologists, large series of patients are rare, and controlled studies of management are not available.
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MESH Headings
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Age of Onset
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Female
- Humans
- Incidence
- Male
- Prognosis
- Scleroderma, Localized/diagnosis
- Scleroderma, Localized/epidemiology
- Scleroderma, Localized/physiopathology
- Scleroderma, Localized/therapy
- Scleroderma, Systemic/diagnosis
- Scleroderma, Systemic/epidemiology
- Scleroderma, Systemic/physiopathology
- Scleroderma, Systemic/therapy
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- H Emery
- Department of Pediatrics, University of California at San Francisco, 94143-0105, USA
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De Vito JR, Merogi AJ, Vo T, Boh EE, Fung HK, Freeman SM, Cockerell C, Stewart K, Marrogi AJ. Role of Borrelia burgdorferi in the pathogenesis of morphea/scleroderma and lichen sclerosus et atrophicus: a PCR study of thirty-five cases. J Cutan Pathol 1996; 23:350-8. [PMID: 8864923 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0560.1996.tb01309.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Morphea (localized scleroderma), and lichen sclerosus et atrophicus (LSA) share common features with acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans (ACA), a known chronic form of borreliosis. These include similar histologic findings such as diffuse dermal fibrosis. These observations have led several investigators to consider the possibility of Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) as a common etiologic factor among all of these diseases. The aim of this study is to investigate the role of Bb in the pathogenesis of morphea and LSA, by assaying for its presence in lesional skin biopsies from patients with these diseases. We utilized the nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique to selectively amplify a longer segment of a Bb-specific somatic gene, on DNA from paraffin-embedded, formalin-fixed tissues. The results revealed no Bb-specific DNA sequence in 28 specimens of morphea/scleroderma and 7 of LSA with varying stages of disease. Furthermore, confirmatory Southern blot of the PCR product, resulted in similar findings. These data seriously question the role played by this spirochete in the pathogenesis of morphea and LSA, at least in the southeastern part of the USA.
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- J R De Vito
- Department of Dermatology, Talane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA
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- B M Ansell
- MRC Clinical Research Center, Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom
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MESH Headings
- Acrodermatitis/microbiology
- Borrelia burgdorferi Group
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Humans
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/diagnosis
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/epidemiology
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/microbiology
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/therapy
- Lichenoid Eruptions/microbiology
- Scleroderma, Localized/microbiology
- Sclerosis
- Skin/pathology
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- A Hovmark
- Department of Dermatology, Karolinska Institute at Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
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- E C LeRoy
- Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston
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