Pemphigoid diseases are a group of well defined autoimmune disorders. The most common of these diseases is bullous pemphigoid, which. Abstract Bullous pemphigoid BP is a blistering skin disease. Plex and includes bullous pemphigoid, pemphigoid gestationis, mucous.Bullous pemphigoid BP is an autoimmune subepidermal bullous dermatosis defined. Http:www.orpha.netdatapathoGBukBullousPemphigoid.pdf....

bullous pemphigoid is an immunobullous disease with high mortality and morbidity. different aspects and characteristics in the patients vary in different areas in the world. our objective was to study clinical and demographic characteristics of bullous pemphigoid in iranian patients. in a retrospective descriptive study, we reviewed 122 patients with bullous pemphigoid within 1987-2007. demogra...

BACKGROUND An association of bullous pemphigoid with neurological disorders has been reported. The objectives of this study were to review the clinical characteristics of patients with bullous pemphigoid and compare the association between bullous pemphigoid and various neurological disorders and comorbidities. METHODS This was a retrospective case-control study involving 43 patients with bul...

Bullous pemphigoid is a subepidermal autoimmune blistering disease associated with autoantibodies to the hemidesmosomal bullous pemphigoid antigens 180 and 230. Most sera from bullous pemphigoid patients recognize epitopes within the N-terminal NC16A portion of the bullous pemphigoid 180 ectodomain. Using cryosections of human skin, patients' sera were shown to generate dermal-epidermal separat...

BP: bullous pemphigoid DP: dyshidrosiform pemphigoid INTRODUCTION Dyshidrosiform bullous pemphigoid (DP) is an unusual localized variant of bullous pemphigoid (BP), first described by Levine et al in 1979. It presents with a persistent and recurrent vesicobullous eruption, sometimes hemorrhagic, localized to the soles and/or palms. Since the clinical manifestations of DP are similar to those of...

The authors present their experience related to the diagnosis, treatment, and followup of 431 patients with bullous pemphigoid, 14 patients with juvenile bullous pemphigoid, and 273 patients with pemphigus. The detection of autoantibodies plays an outstanding role in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis. Paraneoplastic pemphigoid is suggested to be a distinct entity from the group of bullou...

pemphigoid gestationis (pg) is a rare autoimmune bullous dermatosis of pregnancy usually presents in the second or third trimester. it is characterized by pruritic, urticarial plaques with the development of tense vesicles and bullae within the lesions. pathogenesis of pg is not fully established, however, most patients develop circulating autoantibodies targeting the bullous pemphigoid (bp) 18...

A 52 year old man developed bullous pemphigoid, Coombs' positive haemolytic anaemia and diarrhoea related to the use of mefenamic acid. Clinical manifestation of the bullous pemphigoid, haemolytic anaemia and diarrhoea resolved following discontinuation of the mefenamic acid. Mefenamic acid should be added to the list of agents that are known to induce bullous pemphigoid.

Bullous pemphigoid is an autoimmune subepidermal blistering dermatosis that is uncommon in childhood. We report a case of a female infant, 3 months old, which presented clinical and laboratory data for the confirmatory diagnosis of bullous pemphigoid. The authors used immunohistochemical staining for collagen type IV that allowed the differentiation of bullous pemphigoid from other subepidermal...