From joint pains to hair gains: baricitinib’s double duty for rheumatoid arthritis and alopecia areata
Gates, Emer Jamal, Muhammad Safwan
Gates, Emer
Jamal, Muhammad Safwan
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2024-10-24
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Personalised medicine is a key goal across medical specialties today: using biomarkers and knowledge of pathophysiology to ensure the right patients get the right treatment. This becomes more challenging when patients have more than one disease requiring a targeted treatment. Autoimmune diseases commonly co-occur, and thus, multidisciplinary working is important in rheumatology. We present a case where a patient with a new diagnosis of alopecia areata on a background of rheumatoid arthritis was successfully treated with baricitinib monotherapy, with improvement in both conditions.
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Gates, E., Takwale, A., & Jamal, M. S. (2024). From joint pains to hair gains: baricitinib's double duty for rheumatoid arthritis and alopecia areata. BMJ case reports, 17(10), e260021. https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2024-260021