INTRODUCTION Bullous skin diseases are characterised by the formation of clefts, leading to vesicles or bullae. Separation most commonly occurs between the dermis and epidermis and results from loss of structural integrity of the basement membrane zone. Subepidermal bullous diseases (SEBD) have been described mostly in the dog. Although their clinical presentation is variable, it is not possibl...

Pemphigus vulgaris is an autoimmune bullous disorder characterized by the production of autoantibodies against the intercellular space of the epithelium. It has rarely been reported in association with inflammatory bowel disease. Ulcerative colitis is one of the forms of inflammatory bowel disease. A 62-year-old woman who had been treated for ulcerative colitis for 16 years developed pruritic b...

Introduction: Bullous pemphigoid is an autoimmune bullous dermatosis that most commonly occurs in elderly patients. Due to its pathogenesis and treatment of the disease, it can also affect development comorbidities. Aim: Determination comorbidities their frequency patients with pemphigoid, as well distribution by sex estimation duration from onset symptoms data collection. Material methods: In ...

Bullous pemphigoid (BP) and psoriasis vulgaris represent two clinically well characterized, inflammatory, chronic skin diseases. A 62 years old female patient, from rural areas, was admitted for the presence of erythematous plaques covered by large tense blisters with clear fluid, located symmetrically on the anterior part of the upper limbs, the trunk, the neck and the lower limbs. Also the le...

Bullous systemic lupus erythematosus (BSLE) is a rare autoimmune subepidermal blistering disease, with few cases described in childhood. It has different clinical-pathological features. We report a case of BSLE in a 10-year-old child with systemic lupus erythematosus, treated with prednisone and hydroxychloroquine. There was complete remission with dapsone, with no recurrence of skin lesions th...

• Idiopathic inflammatory disease of the skin, hair, nails and mucous membranes, seen most commonly in middle-aged adults • Flat-topped violaceous papules and plaques favor the wrists, forearms, genitalia, distal lower extremities and presacral area • Clinical variants include annular, bullous, hypertrophic, linear, ulcerative and lichen planopilaris • Histologically, there is a dense, band-lik...

1.1 The concept of immunoglobulin G4-related sclerosing disease Immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4) is the rarest subclass of IgG, which is numbered 1 through 4 in the order of their discovery and serum concentration, and normally constitutes only 3 to 6% of the total IgG fraction (Oxelius, 2008). IgG4 antibody has unique structural and functional properties, and the production of IgG4 appears to be drive...

Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is an acquired, autoimmune, subepidermal blistering disease with subepidermal blisters that occur mainly in the elderly (1). Although some epidemiological studies have shown that the frequency of malignancies in patients with BP is spread in similar proportion throughout the population (2,3), some authors consider BP to be a paraneoplastic synBullous pemphigoid in a pati...

recent developments in medicine have given us a better insight into a group of disorders known as autoimmune diseases. in particular, advances have occurred in our understanding of the autoimmune inner ear disease (aied). in this article, the authors review the different postulated theories in the pathogenesis of this disease. the clinical presentation, the available para-clinical diagnostic to...