Primary Care

Nail Disorders

Questions discussed in this category

What is your approach to treating patients with chronically brittle nails?

2 Answers available

What is your preferred oral regime with duration for treatment of onychomycosis?

How frequently can you repeat the oral course?

4 Answers available

What oral treatment options would you offer a patient with severe onychomycosis who is also on methotrexate for another condition?

2 Answers available

What recommendations do you offer for patients who have nail longitudinal ridging?

1 Answer available

How do you approach longitudinal melanonychia of one fingernail in a pediatric patient?

1 Answer available

How do you approach treating nail lichen planus?

2 Answers available

How do you counsel patients on preventing nail damage with constant pedicures/manicures and nail polish?

1 Answer available

What is your approach to a young adult patient with significant nail psoriasis and not much cutaneous disease?

1 Answer available

How do you manage patients with twenty nail dystrophy of unclear etiology?

1 Answer available

How do you manage patients with yellow nail syndrome?

What are your preferred treatment methods other than topical Vitamin E and azole antifungals?

1 Answer available

How do you approach patients with onychomycosis that does not respond to terbinafine and prolonged courses of fluconazole?

Would you switch to itraconazole or perform fungal cultures? When would you consider repeating the course of treatment?

2 Answers available

Papers discussed in this category

Dermatol Ther (Heidelb), 2019 Nov 20

Pathogenesis, Clinical Signs and Treatment Recommendations in Brittle Nails: A Review.

Dermatol Ther, 2021 May

Successful systemic treatment outcomes of lichen planus: A single-center retrospective review.

Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland), 2019 Sep 04

A Week of Oral Terbinafine Pulse Regimen Every Three Months to Treat all Dermatophyte Onychomycosis.

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