Vitiligo in a Patient With Kabuki Syndrome: Case Study and Review of the Literature

Kabuki Syndrome (KS) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by dysmorphic facial features, skeletal anomalies, dermatoglyphic abnormalities, intellectual disability, and short stature. Autoimmune disease can be seen more frequently in this patient population. Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease that...

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Autores principales: Gage, Karli, Weissman, Amanda S, McBride, Jeffrey
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/PMC9948685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36843813
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34143
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description Kabuki Syndrome (KS) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by dysmorphic facial features, skeletal anomalies, dermatoglyphic abnormalities, intellectual disability, and short stature. Autoimmune disease can be seen more frequently in this patient population. Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease that is uncommonly reported in patients with KS. This report describes a case of vitiligo manifesting in a patient with KS and discusses the use of Janus kinase inhibitors as treatment.
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spelling pubmed-99486852023-02-24 Vitiligo in a Patient With Kabuki Syndrome: Case Study and Review of the Literature Gage, Karli Weissman, Amanda S McBride, Jeffrey Cureus Dermatology Kabuki Syndrome (KS) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by dysmorphic facial features, skeletal anomalies, dermatoglyphic abnormalities, intellectual disability, and short stature. Autoimmune disease can be seen more frequently in this patient population. Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease that is uncommonly reported in patients with KS. This report describes a case of vitiligo manifesting in a patient with KS and discusses the use of Janus kinase inhibitors as treatment. Cureus 2023-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9948685/ /pubmed/36843813 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34143 Text en Copyright © 2023, Gage 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_fullStr Vitiligo in a Patient With Kabuki Syndrome: Case Study and Review of the Literature
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topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9948685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36843813
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34143
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