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Dermatology

Other Topical Medications

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11 sections · 141 slides

  1. 01

    Overview

    • What this chapter covers
    • Topical drug classes in this chapter

    2 slides

  2. 02

    General Principles of Topical Therapy

    Vehicles, absorption, dosing, and safety in special populations

    • What topical medications are
    • Percutaneous absorption
    • How a topical drug reaches its target
    • Factors that affect percutaneous absorption
    • Patient and skin factors that raise absorption
    • Drug and vehicle factors that raise absorption
    • How much medicine to apply
    • The fingertip unit (FTU)
    • Ointment quantities for adults by body area
    • Ointment quantities for children by age
    • An adult fingertip unit shown on skin
    • What a vehicle does
    • Vehicle types: ointments, creams, and pastes
    • Vehicle types: liquids, gels, and powders
    • Classification of topical vehicles
    • Topical drug classes covered elsewhere in the book
    • Topical medications covered in other chapters
    • Topical medications covered in other chapters (continued)
    • Topical therapy in pregnancy and lactation
    • Topical medications with minimal risk in pregnancy and lactation
    • Topical medications with minimal risk in pregnancy and lactation (continued)
    • What "minimal risk" means here
    • The old FDA pregnancy category system
    • Traditional FDA pregnancy risk categories
    • Why newborns absorb more drug
    • Why newborn skin lets more drug through
    • Factors that raise systemic toxicity risk in neonates
    • Drugs that have caused toxicity in neonates
    • Potential systemic side effects of topical medications
    • Potential systemic side effects of topical medications (continued)
    • Potential systemic side effects of topical medications (continued)
    • Combining or rotating topical drugs

    32 slides

  3. 03

    Antipruritic Agents

    Topical drugs used to relieve itch (pruritus)

    • What pruritus involves
    • How topical antipruritics work
    • Comparing agents used to relieve itch
    • Topical agents used to relieve pruritus
    • Pramoxine and menthol
    • Capsaicin
    • Doxepin and diphenhydramine

    7 slides

  4. 04

    Keratolytics and Humectants

    Agents that thin a built-up outer layer, or add moisture, to the skin

    • What keratolytics do
    • Topical keratolytics and humectants
    • Salicylic acid
    • Alpha-hydroxy acids (AHAs)
    • Urea and propylene glycol

    5 slides

  5. 05

    Skin-Lightening Agents

    • Hydroquinone: what it treats
    • Hydroquinone: mechanism and side effects
    • Hydroquinone: use in pregnancy
    • Monobenzyl ether of hydroquinone (MBEH)
    • Mequinol

    5 slides

  6. 06

    Agents that Affect Hair Growth

    • Unwanted hair and hair loss
    • Minoxidil: indications
    • Minoxidil: mechanism
    • Minoxidil: side effects and pregnancy
    • Bimatoprost: discovery and use
    • Unilateral eyelash overgrowth from bimatoprost
    • Bimatoprost: mechanism and other uses
    • Bimatoprost: side effects and pregnancy
    • Eflornithine

    9 slides

  7. 07

    Immunomodulatory Agents

    Drugs that steer the skin's immune response

    • Imiquimod: what it does
    • Imiquimod: off-label uses
    • Imiquimod: dosing regimens
    • Mechanism of action of imiquimod
    • Imiquimod: side effects
    • Skin reaction to imiquimod treatment of an actinic keratosis
    • Inflammation from imiquimod applied to a lentigo maligna
    • Exuberant inflammatory reaction to imiquimod after tazarotene pretreatment
    • Atypical squamous proliferations after imiquimod
    • Atypical squamous proliferations following topical imiquimod
    • Imiquimod: use in pregnancy
    • Topical calcineurin inhibitors (TCIs): indications
    • Topical calcineurin inhibitors: other uses
    • Mechanism of action of tacrolimus and pimecrolimus
    • Topical calcineurin inhibitors: the boxed warning
    • Topical calcineurin inhibitors: absorption and side effects
    • Topical JAK inhibitors
    • Topical JAK inhibitors: more agents and warnings
    • Topical PDE-4 inhibitors
    • Aryl hydrocarbon receptor agonists: tapinarof
    • Immunomodulator classes at a glance

    21 slides

  8. 08

    Chemotherapeutic Agents

    Topical drugs that kill or arrest rapidly dividing skin cells

    • Topical chemotherapeutic agents
    • 5-Fluorouracil: mechanism
    • 5-Fluorouracil: main use
    • 5-Fluorouracil: other uses and regimen
    • Skin reactions during topical 5-fluorouracil treatment
    • 5-Fluorouracil: side effects and pregnancy
    • Severe inflammatory reaction to topical 5-fluorouracil
    • Mechlorethamine: use for mycosis fungoides
    • Mechlorethamine: response rates and mechanism
    • Mechlorethamine: side effects and pregnancy
    • Carmustine
    • Carmustine: mechanism, side effects, pregnancy

    12 slides

  9. 09

    Vitamin D Analogues

    • Vitamin D in the skin
    • Topical vitamin D agents and uses
    • Topical vitamin D3 and its analogues
    • Chemical structure of calcitriol
    • Chemical structure of calcipotriene
    • Vitamin D analogues: side effects
    • Vitamin D analogues: higher risk and pregnancy

    7 slides

  10. 10

    Miscellaneous Agents

    • Topical sirolimus: what it treats
    • Topical sirolimus: mechanism, results, pregnancy
    • Diclofenac sodium
    • Ingenol mebutate
    • Tar: history and use
    • Tar: mechanism and side effects
    • Tar in pregnancy
    • Anthralin: what it treats
    • Sample short-contact anthralin protocol for alopecia areata
    • Anthralin: mechanism and side effects
    • Podophyllin and podophyllotoxin
    • Podophyllin/podophyllotoxin: mechanism, side effects, pregnancy
    • Cantharidin: what it is and history
    • Cantharidin: application and mechanism
    • Cantharidin: side effects
    • Sulfur
    • Azelaic acid
    • Topical immunotherapy for warts (SADBE)
    • Sample SADBE protocol for cutaneous warts
    • Traditional topical remedies
    • Traditional topical medications
    • Traditional topical medications (continued)
    • Newer barrier-repair moisturizers
    • Prescription barrier-repair and moisturizing agents

    24 slides

  11. 11

    Summary and References

    • Key takeaways: general principles
    • Key takeaways: major drug classes
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    • Dermatology, 5th Edition (2-Volume Set)

    17 slides