Name: For patients with extensive skin disease from dermatomyositis, are you still trying traditional immunosuppressants prior to moving to IVIG?
Uploaded: 2022-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
Description: For patients with extensive skin disease from dermatomyositis, are you still trying traditional immunosuppressants prior to moving to IVIG?

Welcome to Dermbits! Watch short videos of KOLs answering your questions

thumbnail_dermbits-colorful.png

dermbits-colorful.png

Dermbits

For patients with extensive skin disease from dermatomyositis, are you still trying traditional immunosuppressants prior to moving to IVIG?

Connective Tissue Diseases

I do move to IVIG a lot sooner. IviG was approved recently by the FDA for dermatomycitis, so that certainly made it easier to get insurance approval. Pre FDA approval. Getting IViG was a little hard, and the insurance sort of made you go through the wringer of trying other immune suppressants. But certainly IVig has a great role in skin DM, which isn't responsive to other immune therapies. So I really move to IVIG sometimes even as a first step if a patient has really bad DM involving the skin, and often as a second line if they haven't responded to one conventional immune suppressant, just because sometimes insurance gives me a hard time.

For patients with extensive skin disease from dermatomyositis, are you still trying traditional immunosuppressants prior to moving to IVIG?

Related CME