Aaron M Drucker, MD, ScM, FRCPC, FAAD
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Drucker reports no relevant financial disclosures.
Editor’s note: This is an automatically generated transcript. Please notify editor@healio.com if there are concerns regarding accuracy of the transcription.In terms of diagnosing atopic dermatitis, it's usually very straightforward. Of course, like anything in dermatology, there's a differential diagnosis. Depending on what it looks like, it could be a different kind of eczema, like an irritant or a contact dermatitis. Atopic dermatitis can also sometimes look like psoriasis, especially on the palms and soles. Usually it's very straightforward. Sometimes things like skin lymphomas can mimic atopic dermatitis depending on the distribution and whenever it's responding to treatment.
But I would say the biggest challenges are in treating atopic dermatitis. Even now, when we have so many new targeted treatments available, we have so many different options from topical treatments to, new systemic treatments. We can help the vast majority of people with atopic dermatitis, but we're still gonna have those people who aren't responding, in the way that we want them to, to our different treatments. And so we end up cycling through. We don't have a lot of good ways of predicting who's gonna respond to which treatment. We don't have a good way of saying, "Well, maybe you should go on a biologic and you should go on a JAK inhibitor," or, "This biologic's the right one for you." We have to kind of just go through trial, trial and error and see how we can help people in that way. I would say that that's the biggest challenge.
