Soares Almeida
Corticosteroids and other immunosuppressants therapy in oral medicine
- MD from the Nova Lisbon Medical School (1982)
- Professor of Dermatology and Vice-Director of the Department of Medical Education
- Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa.
- Director of the Dermatopathology Laboratory, Hospital de Santa Maria, CHULN
Curriculum EN – linha 6: Senior Researcher at Instituto de Medicina Molecular de Lisboa - M interests are Malignant Melanoma and(Clinical-Pathologic correlation of Inflammatory Dermatoses
Nationality: Portugal
Scientific areas: Therapy
18 of november, from 09h00 until 09h35
Room 1
Conference summary
Glucocorticoids are the most used drugs to control non-infectious oral inflammatory pathology, namely autoimmune pathology, such as pemphigus, lichen planus and lupus erythematosus.
We will make a brief summary of the mechanism of action of corticosteroids, the most commonly used schedule of administration in the daily clinic, their doses and side effects.
As immunological diseases are usually chronic, with outbreaks and present in patients with several comorbidities, there is a need to avoid prolonged use of cortisone in high doses.
We can thus associate immunosuppressive drugs that work as cortisone sparing agents.
We will design the most used drugs for this purpose, their contraindications and most frequent side effects, making a reference to the new treatments with biological agents.
This presentation will be complemented with illustrative clinical cases.