Pemphigus Vegetans was first described as a variant of Pemphigus Vulgaris in 1876 by Neumann. In 1889, Hallopeau described a patient with pustules and vegetating plaques, suggesting that it would be a variant of Pemphigus Vegetans of Neumann. Both types of Pemphigus Vegetans are characterized by the development of vegetating plaques especially on skin folds (axillae, groin, perianal region). Th...

A clinicopalhological study of 70 cases of pemphigus observed over a span of four and a half years from January 1992 to June 1996 at the Sir J.J. Group of Hospitals and Grant Medical College, Mumbai is reported. Pemphigus vulgaris constituted the single largest group of 43 cases, followed by pemphigus foliaceus (25 cases) and pemphigus vegetans (2 cases). Majority of the cases were seen in the ...

Current guidelines recommend that the disease severity and treatment efficacy should be evaluated with clinical scores in pemphigus/pemphigoid. PDAI pemphigus BPDAI pemphigoid are widely used to determine whether additional second-line therapies (e.g., plasma change) considered if initial is insufficient for control. To validate utility of monitoring PDAI/BPDAI transitions, we retrospectively a...

A range of pemphigus is relatively rare potentially fatal group of autoimmune blistering dermatoses. Usually, there is no apparent triggering, while in some predisposed patients there are alleged environmental/industrial inducing factors. In a short time period (4 years), we diagnosed 3 novel cases of pemphigus (1 pemphigus vulgaris, 1 pemphigus foliaceus and 1 shift from pemphigus foliaceus in...

Background: Pemphigus is an autoimmune disease characterized with intra-epidermal cleavage. Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the clinical and epidemiologic features of pemphigus in Khouzestan province, southwest Iran. Patients and Methods: All new cases of pemphigus admitted in the department of dermatology, Sina Hospital, Ahwaz University from October 1990 to September 1999 were...

Pemphigus are blistering autoimmune diseases related with genetic and environmental factors. Here we describe HLA genotyping in pemphigus patients. First, we review the HLA class I/II data on pemphigus reported in Brazilian samples and then present the HLA class I (-A, -B, -C) and class II (-DRB1, -DQA1, -DQB1) alleles related to susceptibility/resistance to pemphigus by comparing 86 patients w...

Pemphigus is a group of rare and life-threatening autoimmune blistering diseases of the skin and mucous membranes. Although they occur worldwide, their incidence shows wide geographical variation, and prospective data on the epidemiology of pemphigus are very limited. Objective of this work is to evaluate the incidence and epidemiological and clinical features of patients with pemphigus in Turk...

INTRODUCTION Pemphigus vulgaris is a relatively rare, chronic, autoimmune vesiculobullous disorder characterized by formation of intraepithelial vesiculae and/or bullae in the skin and mucous membrane. Systemic steroids are considered to be the standard first-line therapy for pemphigus vulgaris. However, for patients unresponsive to standard therapy, the new treatment modalities are being sough...

Pemphigus is a group of autoimmune blistering diseases. There had been abundant evidence that antibodies against components within the desmosomes were responsible for its pathogenesis. The major antigens in pemphigus vulgaris and pemphigus foliaceus are desmoglein 3 (130 kDa) and desmoglein 1 (160 kDa) respectively. They are glycoproteins belonging to the cadherin family and form part of the tr...

BACKGROUND Pemphigusis a bullous, rare and chronic autoimmune disease. There are two major forms of pemphigus: vulgaris and foliaceus. Epidemiological data and clinical outcome in patients diagnosed in the Brazilian Amazon states are still rare. OBJECTIVES To study the occurrence of the disease during the study period and analyze the epidemiological profile of patients, the most common subtyp...