BACKGROUND Mycophenolate mofetil is increasingly being used as a corticosteroid-sparing agent in immunosuppressive regimens. OBJECTIVE To elucidate the effectiveness of mycophenolate as adjuvant therapy in the treatment of both pemphigus vulgaris and pemphigus foliaceus. DESIGN Historical prospective study. SETTING University hospital. PATIENTS The study included 42 consecutive patients...

Pemphigus vulgaris and paraneoplastic pemphigus are 2 subtypes of pemphigus that involve the oral mucosa. These autoimmune blistering disorders have antibodies targeted against proteins of keratinocyte adhesion, thereby causing acantholysis. Clinical findings include oral erosions and flaccid cutaneous bullae and erosions. Further malignancy workup in patients with suspected paraneoplastic pemp...

background: pemphigus is an autoimmune bullous disease and it is unclear what triggers and deteriorates it. the current study aimed to evaluate whether increasing the igg antibody titer represents a good indicator of the pemphigus recurrence. objectives: the current study aimed to evaluate whether increasing igg titer is an indicator of the expected recurrence. patients and methods: the current...

Pemphigus is an autoimmune disease in which IgG auto-antibodies (auto-ab) against the desmosomal cadherins desmoglein (Dsg) 3 and Dsg1 cause loss of epidermal keratinocyte adhesion. Aim of this study was to investigate cytokines derived from antigen-presenting cells (APC) and their relation to CD4+ T cell subpopulations and to the auto-ab response in pemphigus. In this regard, patients with pem...

Pemphigus is an autoimmune bullous disease observed with lesions in the skin and mucosa. Pemphigus is classified by antibodies against desmogleins, which is cadherin type intercellular adhesion factors involved in adhesion between epidermal cells. In this case, because erosion of the oral mucosa was the primary symptom, a relationship with membrane-dominant pemphigus vulgaris was strongly suspe...

Pemphigus (from the Greek pemphix, meaning bubble or blister) is a blistering disease involving the skin and mucous membrane. The disease is characterized histologically by acantholysis which means loss of adhesion between keratinocytes, and immuno-pathologically by the presence of immunoglobulin directed towards the cell surface of kerat inocytes . 1 The landmark ar t ic le in the understandin...

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...

IgA pemphigus is a newly characterized group of autoimmune intraepidermal blistering diseases presenting as vesiculopustular eruptions with a predilection in axillary and groin areas. Immunopathologically, IgA deposition in the intercellular space of the epidermis is present in all cases of IgA pemphigus by direct immunofluorescence. However, unlike pemphigus vulgaris, IgA pemphigus carries a r...

Bucillamine is a disease modifying anti-rheumatic drug, structurally similar to D-penicillamine. Although D-penicillamine-induced pemphigus has been not infrequently demonstrated, pemphigus associated with bucillamine was rarely reported. We describe a patient complicating pemphigus vulgaris after bucillamine treatment in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and polymyositis (PM) overlap syndrome. PM and ...