A 55-year-old man presents to the clinic with multiple tense bullae diffusely involving his trunk and extremities that overlie urticarial plaques. The patient states that for the past 4 weeks, his ...

—This study tested the hypothesis that pemphigus is associated with MS, dementia, and related disorders. Why? Bullous pemphigoid, with a similar pathogenesis, is associated with some neurologic ...

IN the consideration of vesiculating and bullous eruptions of the oral mucosa, insufficient attention has been given to benign mucous-membrane pemphigus as a distinct clinical entity. Also, in many ...

Pemphigus is an autoimmune bullous disease, in which autoantibodies react with the cell–cell adhesion structures, desmosomes, causing blisters and erosions on the oral mucosa and skin. Pemphigus is ...

We report a patient treated under an Institutional Review Board and the United States Food and Drug Administration approved protocol for refractory bullous skin diseases that include PF, pemphigus ...

The three main types of pemphigus are vulgaris, pemphigus foliaceus, and paraneoplastic pemphigus. a) Pemphigus vulgaris is the most common variety and accounts for 70% of the pemphigus cases. It is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Rituximab is associated with higher protection against long-term cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, but ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with pemphigus treated with rituximab had a longer disease-free survival than those treated with ...

PV is characterized by the deposition of IgG antibodies against desmoglein 3 (Dsg3, a 130kDa protein) and desmoglein 1 (Dsg1) found in the mucous epithelium and in skin desmosomes, causing loss of ...