Pemphigus vulgaris is a rare, potentially fatal, autoimmune blistering disease of the skin and mucous membranes. Treatment of this disease is problematic because of a lack of high-grade, evidence-based recommendations, the side-effect profiles of the therapies available, and the extensive supportive care that afflicted patients require. The authors present the unfortunate course of a patient wi...

Pemphigus vulgaris is a potentially fatal autoimmune mucocutaneous disease associated with production of IgG autoantibodies to desmoglein 3, a 130 kDa epidermal protein. To further characterize the epitope(s) of Pemphigus vulgaris antigen we established two humanhuman hybridomas by fusion of the peripheral blood mononuclear cells with a human and mouse heterohybridoma. These hybridomas designat...

background: pemphigus vulgaris, a chronic mucocutaneous disease, is the most prevalent type of pemphigus which manifests with development of bullae and erosions on skin and mucosal membranes. objectives: to investigate the potential role of il-23 in pemphigus vulgaris. methods: in this study, 30 patients with pemphigus vulgaris and 30 healthy individuals were selected according to inclusion and...

12 patients with pemphigus foliaceus, a form of pemphigus with lesions that arise in the intercellular substance in the superficial layers of the epidermis, and 7 patients with pemphigus vulgaris, where lesions are in the deep layers, were studied by immunofluorescence. Circulating antibodies to intercellular antigens (IC antibodies) were found in 11 pemphigus foliaceus and 5 pemphigus vulgaris...

From the Division of Immunodermatology, Department of Dermatology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicagoa; the Department of Dermatology, Kurume University School of Medicineb; the Department of Dermatology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyoc; and the Medicine Service, Section of Dermatology, Lakeside Division, Veterans Affairs Chicago Health Care System.d Supported by a Clini...

Pemphigus is an autoimmune disease characterised by anti-desmoglein (Dsg) antibodies in the serum of patients. The disease can be divided into pemphigus foliaceus and pemphigus vulgaris. Anti-Dsg1 antibody is generally related to pemphigus with cutaneous lesion, and the anti-Dsg3 antibody is related to pemphigus with mucosa lesion. Twenty-nine patients with pemphigus vulgaris were selected in t...

UNLABELLED Pemphigus are autoimmune intraepidermal blistering diseases in which immunoglobulin G (IgG) autoantibodies are directed against desmosomal glycoproteins. The aim of this study was to determine the IgG subclass profile of endemic pemphigus foliaceus (fogo selvagem) and pemphigus vulgaris utilizing indirect immunofluorescence. PATIENTS AND METHODS Twenty-five patients with pemphigus ...

pemphigus vulgaris is an autoimmune disease, in which the role of th17 cytokines needs to be further explored. this study was performed to assess serum levels of three interleukins (il) required for th17 differentiation (il-1β, il-6 and il-23) and two specific th17 cytokines (il-17 and il-22) in a group of patients with pemphigus vulgaris, at baseline, 3 weeks and 6 months after of treatment. c...

Journal Compilation © 2012 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Pemphigus is an autoimmune mucocutaneous bullous disease characterized by auto-antibodies against cell surface antigens of epidermal keratinocytes. Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) and pemphigus foliaceus (PF) are the major subtypes. Several other variants have been proposed, including pemphigus erythematosus, pemphigus vegetans, pemp...

d-penicillamine is one of the disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (dmards). drug-induced pemphigus is not frequently associated with d-penicillamine, and to date, the number of reported cases is about a hundred. most reports of d-penicillamine-induced pemphigus vulgaris are in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. it has rarely been reported in patients not taking d-penicillamine. we report a ...