Eosinophilic Pustular Folliculitis in the Setting of Solid Organ Transplant Immunosuppression

Citation: Chen J, Beatty CJ, Falcone LM, English JC, Kazlouskaya V. Eosinophilic Pustular Folliculitis in the Setting of Solid Organ Transplant Immunosuppression. Dermatol Pract Concept. 2023;13(2):e2023078. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5826/dpc.1302a78

Accepted: June 20, 2023; Published: April 2023

Copyright: ©2023 Chen et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (BY-NC-4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/, which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited.

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Corresponding author: Viktoryia Kazlouskaya, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Dermatology and Dermatopathology, Medical Arts Building, 3708 5^th Avenue, Suite 500.68, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 E-mail: viktoriakozlovskaya@yahoo.com

Abstract

Keywords : Eosinophilic pustular folliculitis, Ofuji's disease, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, immunosuppression, immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome

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