Explore the characteristics of COPD and asthma, focusing on their shared inflammatory mechanisms and key clinical differences.

Many AD treatment goals focus on clinical manifestations, so that if a patient is free of lesions, their disease is considered well controlled. However, the inflammatory process underlying AD reaches far beyond the skin, affecting patients in unique ways at different stages of their lives. Education on the importance of treating AD beyond the skin and altering the treatment approach to fit the individual patient will help improve clinical management and reduce long-term patient burden.

In this soundbite video from the April 2025 ADVENT Forum in Lisbon, Portugal, Prof. Oscar Palomares reviews the cellular and molecular pathways underlying atopic dermatitis and considers which biomarkers may one day serve as robust measures of disease modification, despite no validated options currently being available.
Dr Lawrence Eichenfield explores the broadening of treatment goals for long-term disease control, highlighting the importance of this approach in atopic dermatitis. Drs Culton, Elmariah, and Hawkes expand the discussion to further examine specific management goals unique to each skin disease (bullous pemphigoid, prurigo nodularis, and chronic spontaneous urticaria).