...Liuqi Zhao; Yan Chen; Mingyue Wang Background: Pemphigus vulgaris is a life-threatening autoimmune bullous disease characterized by flaccid blister formation. As there has been no macroscopic assessment of epidemiological characteristics, its disease burden in the general population remains unknown...

...Adi Nosrati; Emmilia Hodak; Tomer Mimouni; Meital Oren-Shabtai; Assi Levi; Yael A. Leshem; Daniel Mimouni Background: A combined regimen of rituximab with corticosteroids for the treatment of pemphigus was effective in a prospective randomized controlled trial. Objective: To assess real-life...

...Igor Snast; Liron Spitzer; Emmilia Hodak; Assi Levi; Daniel Mimouni; Yael A. Leshem Introduction: In a randomized prospective trial, adjuvant rituximab was more efficacious than corticosteroids alone in the treatment of pemphigus; however, real-life data are limited. Rituximab treatment...

...Sharon Baum; Assaf Debby; Sarit Gilboa; Henri Trau; Aviv Barzilai Background: Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is a chronic autoimmune blistering disease. Most patients require long-term therapy with systemic steroids, and a steroid-sparing agent is usually also utilized. Dapsone is a chemotherapeutic agent...

...Eleonora Ruocco; Vincenzo Ruocco; Ada Lo Schiavo; Giampiero Brunetti; Ronni Wolf Virus infections and autoimmunity have long been linked. As to pemphigus, many studies have been directed to prove or rule out the possibility of viral induction. Herpesviruses have often been related to the onset...

...Nathalia Bellon; Chantal André; Emilie Sbidian; Nicolas Ortonne; Pierre Wolkenstein; Olivier Chosidow; Saskia Ingen-Housz-Oro Background: The value of anti-desmoglein 1 and 3 (Dsg1, Dsg3) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is controversial in the follow-up of pemphigus. Objective...

...S. Gregoriou; S. Giatrakou; K. Theodoropoulos; A. Katoulis; P. Loumou; E. Toumbis-Ioannou; E. Papadavid; G. Avgerinou; N. Stavrianeas; D. Rigopoulos Aims: To assess the efficacy and safety of rituximab in refractory pemphigus and the possible benefit of an additional prophylactic infusion at 6...

...T.J.A. van Dijk; J.L. van Velde The results obtained with azathioprine in 10 patients with pemphigus and pemphigoid are reported. Seven of these patients showed a very good response to azathioprine alone. In two patients an initial high dosage of corticosteroids could be considerably reduced after...

...H. Tagami; S. Imamura; S. Noguchi; H. Nishitani An unusual vesiculobullous disease and myasthenia gravis occurred concurrently with a malignant thymoma in a Japanese male. The bullous dermatosis had combined clinical and histological features of both dermatitis herpetiformis and pemphigus. Serum...

... or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Permeability-increasing factor Blister fluid Pemphigus Dermatologica 149: 225-230 (1974) Detection of a Non-Dialysable Permeability-Increasing Substance in the Human Plasma...

...Tadeusz Chorzelski; Stefania Jablonska; Ewa Maciejowska; Maria Blaszczyk Results of combined treatment with low doses of steroids (50–10–5 mg) and Visken (7.5–15 mg) in 5 cases of pemphigus erythematosus and 5 cases of pemphigus vulgaris are presented. Treatment lasted from 30 days to 1.5 years...

... from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Immunofluorescence Basement membrane antibodies Epidermal intercellular antibodies Malignancy Pemphigoid Pemphigus Dcrmatologica 151: 96-99 (1975) Investigations for Skin Antibodies...

...V. Ruocco; M. de Luca; M. Pisani; E. de Angelis; O. Vitale; C. Astarita We present the results of our experiments with in vitro tissue cultures of normal human skin, carried out in order to clarify the mechanism(s) by which D (-)penicillamine provokes pemphigus. Various concentrations of D...

...O. Binet; J. Girarä; E. Beltzer-Garelly; A. Avram; J.P.P. Césctrini; R. Aron-Brunetière A 71-year-old male had a clinically atypical pemphigus (pemphigus herpetiformis), associated with histopathologic eosinophilic spongiosis. This case is discussed and was frequently found reported in iatrogenic...

...V. Ruocco; A. Rossi; M. Pisani; C.A. Astarita; L. Alviggi A case of an abortive form of pemphigus probably induced by protracted penicillin treatment is reported. Because of a positive patch test with penicillamine and the finding of such an amino acid in patient’s plasma, the authors are induced...

...Takeji Nishikawa; Seiichi Kurihara; Hitoshi Hatano Using complement immunofluorescence, the capability of complement fixation by bound antibodies in pemphigus lesional skin was compared with circulating intercellular antibodies of complement-fixing type in the same patient. Five lesional skin...

...W.M. Stewart This comparison of the two diseases – pemphigus and pemphigoid – aimed particularly on points of actual interest. Are thus reviewed: (1) the research on the influence of racial or genetic factors in pemphigus vulgaris; (2) the striking differences between the immunological criteria...

... or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Mycosis fungoides Blister Immunohistochemistry Pemphigus Dermatologica 174: 34-38...

...Thomas Hunziker; Jean-Jacques Morgenthaler; Heinz A. Gerber In the skin organ culture model of pemphigus, fibronectin concentrations of 300 and 500 μg/ml inhibited pemphigus plasma-induced acantholysis and intraepidermal binding of the pemphigus antibodies examined by direct immunofluorescence...

.... It is suggested that a T cell cytotoxic reaction occurs in the epidermis that might be triggered by captopril-induced modification of keratinocytic antigens Captopril Immunolabeling Skin Pemphigus Lichenoid eruption 20 07 1987 25 11 1987 9 10 2009 © 1988 S. Karger AG, Basel 1988...