Psoriasiform Drug Eruption to Finasteride: Uncommon Side Effect of a Commonly Used Drug

Finasteride, a 5-α reductase inhibitor, is generally well tolerated on long-term use and cutaneous adverse events have rarely been observed with the drug. We present the case of a 25-year-old male who developed an extensive psoriasiform eruption within a week of starting finasteride 1 mg for androge...

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Autores principales: Muddebihal, Aishwarya, Khurana, Ananta, Kulhari, Anita, Ahuja, Arvind
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10075345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37034544
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_42_21
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author Muddebihal, Aishwarya
Khurana, Ananta
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Ahuja, Arvind
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description Finasteride, a 5-α reductase inhibitor, is generally well tolerated on long-term use and cutaneous adverse events have rarely been observed with the drug. We present the case of a 25-year-old male who developed an extensive psoriasiform eruption within a week of starting finasteride 1 mg for androgenetic alopecia.
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spelling pubmed-100753452023-04-06 Psoriasiform Drug Eruption to Finasteride: Uncommon Side Effect of a Commonly Used Drug Muddebihal, Aishwarya Khurana, Ananta Kulhari, Anita Ahuja, Arvind Int J Trichology Case Report Finasteride, a 5-α reductase inhibitor, is generally well tolerated on long-term use and cutaneous adverse events have rarely been observed with the drug. We present the case of a 25-year-old male who developed an extensive psoriasiform eruption within a week of starting finasteride 1 mg for androgenetic alopecia. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022 2023-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10075345/ /pubmed/37034544 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_42_21 Text en Copyright: © 2023 International Journal of Trichology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10075345/
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