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This extensively revised new edition provides a quick study and reference guide for physicians who treat patients with autoimmune bullous diseases (AIBDs), the most life-threatening inflammatory diseases of the skin. AIBDs are rare, comprising less than 1% of the dermatological patients and as such, they are often given little focus in general ...
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IgE autoantibodies and their association with the disease activity and phenotype in Bullous Pemphigoid: a systematic review [PDF]
Bullous Pemphigoid (BP) is the most common autoimmune skin disease of blistering character. The underlying pathophysiological mechanism involves an immune attack, usually by IgG class autoantibodies, on the autoantigen BP 180/BPAg2, which is a type XVII ...
Fairclough, Lucy C. +3 more
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Polymorphisms in the Mitochondrial Genome Are Associated With Bullous Pemphigoid in Germans
Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is the most prevalent autoimmune skin blistering disease and is characterized by the generation of autoantibodies against the hemidesmosomal proteins BP180 (type XVII collagen) and BP230.
Juliane Russlies +46 more
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Paraneoplastic pemphigus: insight into the autoimmune pathogenesis, clinical features and therapy [PDF]
Paraneoplastic pemphigus is a rare autoimmune skin disease that is always associated with a neoplasm. Usually, oral, skin, and mucosal lesions are the earliest manifestations shown by paraneoplastic pemphigus patients.
Andrea Ciofalo +21 more
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Clinical periodontal diagnosis
Abstract Periodontal diseases include pathological conditions elicited by the presence of bacterial biofilms leading to a host response. In the diagnostic process, clinical signs such as bleeding on probing, development of periodontal pockets and gingival recessions, furcation involvement and presence of radiographic bone loss should be assessed prior ...
Giovanni E. Salvi +5 more
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Bullous pemphigoid in infants: characteristics, diagnosis and treatment [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Bullous pemphigoid (BP) in infants is a rare but increasingly reported autoimmune blistering skin disease. Autoantibody reactivity is usually poorly characterized. Current guidelines do not address specific aspects of the infantile form of BP.
Agnes Schwieger-Briel +8 more
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The importance of direct immunofluorescence in pemphigus herpetiformis diagnosis [PDF]
Pemphigus herpetiformis is an autoimmune bullous disease, that combines clinical features of dermatitis herpetiformis and linear IgA bullous dermatosis and immunological characteristics of pemphigus, which makes this disease peculiar and this diagnosis ...
Paula Carolina Pessanha de Faria +5 more
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Immunoglobulin E-Mediated Autoimmunity [PDF]
The study of autoimmunity mediated by immunoglobulin E (IgE) autoantibodies, which may be termed autoallergy, is in its infancy. It is now recognized that systemic lupus erythematosus, bullous pemphigoid (BP), and chronic urticaria, both spontaneous and ...
Altrichter, Sabine +5 more
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Bullous pyoderma gangrenosum and myelodysplastic syndrome [PDF]
Pyoderma gangrenosum can present as a cutaneous manifestation of paraneoplastic syndromes. A case of bullous pyoderma gangrenosum associated with bicytopenia is described.
Almeida, Fernando Augusto De +7 more
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Interaction of Psoriasis and Bullous Diseases
Patients with psoriasis are frequently complicated with autoimmune bullous diseases, especially, pemphigoid diseases. It has been known that one-third cases of anti-laminin gamma1 pemphigoid, formerly anti-p200 pemphigoid, are associated with psoriasis ...
Teruki Dainichi +2 more
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