Modern strategy for managing patients with follicular occlusion syndrome

Botkina A.S., Gumennaya E.R., Tyukhaeva O.Yu.

1) Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia; 2) Russian Children’s Clinical Hospital – Branch of Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia

Follicular occlusion syndrome is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that includes hidradenitis suppurativa, acne conglobata, abscessed disruptive folliculitis, Hoffman’s perifolliculitis, epithelial coccygeal passage. The disease has a chronic, continuously relapsing course and has a serious impact on the patient’s quality of life. Early diagnosis and treatment can effectively slow down the progression of the disease, prevent the formation of disfiguring scars, reduce the pathological impact of the disease on the somatic and mental health of patients, and reduce the economic burden. Currently, there is no consensus on the treatment of follicular occlusion syndrome. The article highlights and discusses existing approaches to the treatment of this complex category of patients in the world.

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About the Authors

Aleksandra S. Botkina, Cand. Sci. (Ned.), Associate Professor, Department of Hospital Pediatrics named after Academician V.A. Tabolin, Pediatric Faculty, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia; botkina@gmail.com, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6890-2041 (corresponding author)
E.R. Gumennaya, Russian Children’s Clinical Hospital – Branch of Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia;
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8097-2816
O.Yu. Tyukhaeva, Russian Children’s Clinical Hospital – Branch of Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia;
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2656-3278

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