Topical Tacrolimus and Alcohol-Induced Facial Flushing: A Case Report and Literature Review

Flush reactions can be incited by various factors including inherent mutation, drugs, and diseases. A medication that is commonly used in dermatology but less associated with alcohol-induced facial flushing is topical tacrolimus. We present the case of a 44-year-old man experiencing this phenomenon...

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Autores principales: Tekmen, Volkan, Cochrane, Mikayla, Kim, Joyce, Hsu, Sylvia, Rees, Adam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10631569/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38021509
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46744
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author Tekmen, Volkan
Cochrane, Mikayla
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description Flush reactions can be incited by various factors including inherent mutation, drugs, and diseases. A medication that is commonly used in dermatology but less associated with alcohol-induced facial flushing is topical tacrolimus. We present the case of a 44-year-old man experiencing this phenomenon on a distant, non-application site and a review of cases published in the literature.
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spelling pubmed-106315692023-10-09 Topical Tacrolimus and Alcohol-Induced Facial Flushing: A Case Report and Literature Review Tekmen, Volkan Cochrane, Mikayla Kim, Joyce Hsu, Sylvia Rees, Adam Cureus Dermatology Flush reactions can be incited by various factors including inherent mutation, drugs, and diseases. A medication that is commonly used in dermatology but less associated with alcohol-induced facial flushing is topical tacrolimus. We present the case of a 44-year-old man experiencing this phenomenon on a distant, non-application site and a review of cases published in the literature. Cureus 2023-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC10631569/ /pubmed/38021509 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46744 Text en Copyright © 2023, Tekmen et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Topical Tacrolimus and Alcohol-Induced Facial Flushing: A Case Report and Literature Review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10631569/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46744
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