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Tofacitinib for refractory ocular mucous membrane pemphigoid
American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, 2021 Purpose: To report the successful use of tofacitinib in the treatment of refractory ocular mucous membrane pemphigoid (MMP). Observations: Two patients with ocular MMP presented with refractory disease after failure of multiple therapies.
Hayley James +5 more
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Mucous membrane pemphigoid - a report of four cases [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2023 Introduction. Mucous membrane pemphigoid (MMP) is a rare autoimmune, chronic inflammatory disease that affects mucous membranes, most commonly the eyes and mouth, with or without skin involvement.
Jocić Ivana +4 more
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Mucous membrane pemphigoid in a patient with hypertension treated with atenolol: a case report
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2012 Introduction Atenolol is commonly used by patients with hypertension, angina pectoris, or myocardial infarction. There have been reports of various adverse effects associated with the use of atenolol including bullous pemphigoid.
Kanjanabuch Patnarin +3 more
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Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2018 Oesophageal involvement in mucous membrane pemphigoid is considered rare, but it may be underdiagnosed. To assess the incidence of oesophageal involvement in a group of patients with newly diagnosed mucous membrane pemphigoid we retrospectively analysed ...
Sandrine Benoit +3 more
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Describing the gingival involvement in a sample of 182 Italian predominantly oral mucous membrane pemphigoid patients : a retrospective series [PDF]
, 2017 The oral cavity has been frequently described as the only site of involvement or as the first manifestation of mucous membrane pemphigoid (MMP), being the gingival tissues often involved, but usually this has been effusively detailed in limited case ...
Arduino, Paolo-Giacomo +8 more
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Mucous Membrane Pemphigoid with Tracheal Involvement
Case Reports in Pulmonology, 2016 34-year-old African American female with history of pemphigoid presented with hemoptysis. Patient was found to have mucous membrane pemphigoid involving the oropharynx and extending to trachea, till just above main stem carina. Four other cases described
Arash Minaie, Salim R. Surani
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Aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibition blocks mucosal fibrosis in human and mouse ocular scarring [PDF]
, 2016 Mucous membrane pemphigoid (MMP) is a systemic mucosal scarring disease, commonly causing blindness, for which there is no antifibrotic therapy. Aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) family 1 is upregulated in both ocular MMP (OMMP) conjunctiva and cultured ...
Abraham, DJ +9 more
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Paraneoplastic pemphigus: insight into the autoimmune pathogenesis, clinical features and therapy [PDF]
, 2017 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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Effectiveness and Safety of Rituximab in Recalcitrant Pemphigoid Diseases [PDF]
, 2018 Introduction: Rituximab (RTX) is a monoclonal antibody targeting CD20, a transmembrane protein expressed on B cells, causing B cell depletion. RTX has shown great efficacy in studies of pemphigus vulgaris, but data of pemphigoid diseases are limited ...
Euverman, H. Ilona +4 more
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 Chronic blistering at the skin and/or mucous membranes, accompanied by a varying degree of inflammation, is the clinical hallmark of pemphigoid diseases that impose a major medical burden.
Saeedeh Ghorbanalipoor +19 more
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