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Oral propranolol for infantile hemangiomas beyond the proliferative phase.
Journal of Dermatology 2018 October
Infantile hemangiomas grow rapidly during infancy followed by gradual involution. After involution, residual lesions sometimes remain. Despite the prognosis for eventual involution, infantile hemangiomas often cause great psychosocial morbidity that affects patients and their parents. Oral propranolol usually induces earlier involution and redness reduction in infantile hemangiomas in the proliferative phase. However, to evaluate the effectiveness of oral propranolol for infantile hemangiomas beyond the proliferative phase is difficult because of spontaneous regression. We report five Japanese patients treated with 2 mg/kg per day of oral propranolol for infantile hemangiomas beyond the proliferative phase and compared with three untreated patients. After the oral propranolol treatment for 25 weeks, all the treated patients exhibited earlier color fading than untreated patients. Four patients reached nearly complete resolution. Adverse events occurred in three patients: cold, exanthema subitum and suspected of bronchial asthma, respectively. The propranolol treatment for the patient with suspected of bronchial asthma was suspended for 4 months. Recurrence after termination of treatment was not seen. Oral propranolol (2 mg/kg per day) is a safe and effective treatment for Japanese patients with infantile hemangiomas beyond the proliferative phase.
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