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[Mometasone and calcipotriol optimize the initial therapeutic effect of dithranol in chronic persistent psoriasis]

Author(s): Sander P, Stucker M, Hermes N, Hoffmann K, Altmeyer P

Affiliation(s): Dermatologische Klinik, Ruhr-Universitat, Bochum.

Publication date & source: 1998-04, Hautarzt., 49(4):291-4.

Publication type: Clinical Trial; Randomized Controlled Trial

In a randomized study 30 patients with chronic stationary psoriasis were treated with 3 different topical schemes. Group 1 (n = 10) received monotherapy (dithranol (D) twice a day, D/D), group 2 (n = 10) calcipotriol mornings/dithranol evenings (calcipotriol (C)/dithranol (D) C/D) and 3 (mometasone (M) mornings/dithranol (D) evenings, M/D). During the therapy period of 4 weeks we documented the PASI-Score as well as infiltration, erythema and desquamation weekly. The M/D group revealed in the first week a significantly faster reduction of the PASI-score (5.3) than in the D/D group (PASI 13.22). The C/D group (PASI 10.5) show a not significantly faster reduction. After 4 weeks of treatment and after a follow period of 6 weeks there were similar PASI-Scores in all groups. There were less side-effects in the M/D group than in the others. The beginning, more anti-psoriatic effectiveness was achieved by the mometasone/dithranol combination than the other schemes. In the long term, the effects were similar.

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