The Dawning of a New Era in the Management of Prurigo Nodularis: A Focus on the Patient Experience, Differential Diagnoses, and Emerging Treatment Options – Pretest

1. What is your degree?

2. What is your specialty?

3. How confident are you in the management of patients with PN in your practice?

4. Which single symptom do patients rank as the most bothersome in the overall disease burden of PN?

5. PN is now known to be caused by dysregulated cross-talk between the immune and neural systems that leads to what?

6. Mr. Williams, age 62, presents with multiple small, excoriated pruriginous nodules on his upper arms and back that are intensely itchy. In asking about the history of symptom onset, which of the following is required to meet the criteria for a diagnosis of PN?

7. In the 4-step treatment approach recommended by IFSI guidelines, which PN treatments are included in Step 4?

8. Mrs. Johnson, age 45, presents with a PN diagnosis and complains of nonstop itching and embarrassment about her open, bleeding skin lesions. She said she just wants them to heal up and go away! Based on clinical trial data showing lesion itch relief and lesion healing by 24 weeks, which treatment would you recommend?