Pemphigus is a human disease that causes extensive blistering of the skin. This blistering is related to a loss of epidermal cell cohesion and is accompanied by circulating autoantibodies that stain epidermal cell surfaces, as shown by immunofluorescence microscopy. One of the major components involved in epidermal cell cohesion is the desmosome. The pathological changes that accompany pemphigu...

BACKGROUND Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is an autoimmune blistering disorder of the skin or mucosa. Since low vitamin D status has been linked to many immune disorders, we designed this study to compare the vitamin D status in PV patients with healthy controls. METHODS In this case-control study, vitamin D status of 32 newly diagnosed PV patients was compared with 36 healthy control subjects. All ...

Systemic corticosteroids are the treatment of choice for pemphigus vulgaris. Immunosuppressive agent (azathioprine, cyclophosphamide) could be added for patients with severe disease that cannot be controlled by corticosteroids alone or to reduce the dose of corticosteroids.[5] However, immunosuppressants continue to have the complications of systemic infections. Successful use of rituximab ther...

Pemphigus is a life-threatening autoimmune blistering disease. Systemic corticosteroids have been the mainstay and first-line treatment with success. However, longterm use of corticosteroids results in significant morbidities and mortalities. Much effort has been focused on searching alternative or corticosteroids-sparing agents. Rituximab (MabTheraTM; Roche, Basle, Switzerland), a chimeric ant...

IMPORTANCE Quality-of-life (QOL) evaluation is an increasingly important outcome measure in dermatology, with disease-specific QOL instruments being the most sensitive to changes in disease status. OBJECTIVE To develop a QOL instrument specific to autoimmune bullous disease (AIBD). DESIGN A comprehensive item generation process was used to build a 45-item pilot Autoimmune Bullous Disease Qu...

discussion we have to stress that the importance of this case report is its presentation in an elderly patient, as the frequent age of presentation in the iranian patients is the middle age. on the other hand, pv occurs rarely, thus, the reporting of any rare case with some exceptions is important. case presentation we reported a case of pemphigus vulgaris in a 79-year-old patient with the exte...

Pemphigus erythematosus (PE) is an autoimmune blistering disease that is characterized by erythema and blisters, but rarely pustules, on the upper torso, face, and scalp. A 37-year-old woman presented with a 20 day history of intense pruritus as well as multiple papules and pustules on the trunk and face. Initially, the disease was misdiagnosed as impetigo due to the presence of pustules, nonty...

Pemphigus foliaceus is a benign variety of pemphigus group. It rare autoimmune blistering disease that affects the skin without mucosal involvement. can present in endemic and sporadic form; whereby form common Brazil Tunisia, known as fogo selvagem. There was no previous case reported Malaysia. We report 43-year-old man, who presented with generalized extensive blisters vesicles crust scale. T...

Background. Pemphigus vulgaris is an autoimmune blistering disease affecting the mucous membrane and skin. In 50 to 70% of cases, the initial manifestations of pemphigus vulgaris are oral lesions which may be followed by skin lesions. But it is unusual for the disease to present with initial and solitary persistent lower lip lesions without progression to any other location. Main Observations. ...