Unilateral aquagenic keratoderma treated with botulinum toxin A

Extreme Esophageal Spasm Treated with Botulinum Toxin

Diffuse esophageal spasm is a rare motility disorder. The primary symptoms include dysphagia, and chest pain. There is array of treatments available from medical therapy with nitrates to surgical therapy; Heller myotomy. We present a case of severe Diffuse Esophageal Spasm (DES) that showed one of the highest Distal Contractile Integral (DCI) per manometry. Patient was treated with Botulinum To...

Aquagenic Palmoplantar Keratoderma as a CFTR-related Disorder.

Treatment of severe axillary Hyperhidrosis with Botulinum toxin A

Background: Severe axillary hyperhidrosis causes considerable emotional stress to individuals affected with this condition. Existing topical and surgical therapies are either ineffective or associated with unacceptable morbidity and sequelae. Objective: In this study we attempted to determine the effect of botulinum toxin A (Dysport) in the treatment of axillary hyperhidrosis. Patients and Meth...

Radiation-induced Alopecia Treated with Botulinum Toxin Type A Injection

1 Moo Yeol Hyun, MD Beom Joon Kim, MD, PhD Department of Dermatology Chung-Ang University College of Medicine Seoul, Korea Changjin Lee, MD, PhD Jae Wook Kim, MD, PhD Hugel, Inc. Gangwon-do, Korea Sir: B toxin type A (BTXA) has been in use for more than 20 years in the treatment of various neurological conditions and aesthetic treatments.1,2 BTXA is also occasionally used to treat alopecia; how...

Prepubertal hidradenitis suppurativa successfully treated with botulinum toxin A.

Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a recurrent scarring suppurative disease of the apocrine gland-bearing areas of the body that usually affects the intertriginous areas. Prepubertal HS is a rare condition; fewer than 2% of patients have onset of the disease before the age of 11. Management of HS, in children and adults, may be difficult because of its chronic nature and lack of response to stand...