Deoxycholic Acid for Dercum Disease: Repurposing a Cosmetic Agent to Treat a Rare Disease.

The article presents a case report on the use of deoxycholic acid (DCA) to treat Dercum disease, a rare condition characterized by multiple painful fatty tumors. The study was conducted by Ms. Silence, Dr. Kourosh, Ms. Rice, and Ms. Gao from the Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, published in the journal "Cutis" .The authors found that DCA was effective in reducing the size of the tumors and improving pain in the patients studied.