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Key Clinical Message Pemphigoid gestationis is a rare autoimmune skin disorder emerging exclusively during pregnancy. Topical and oral glucocorticoids as well as oral antihistamines are the standard medications administered during pregnancy, aiming to relieve pruritus and to suppress extensive blister formation.
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Pemphigoid gestationis (PG) is a rare autoimmune skin disorder which occurs during pregnancy. PG was first described as herpes gestationis in 1872, though it is not related to herpes virus. It typically presents in the second or third trimester and, rarely, post-partum.
Carlson K, Vadakekut ES.
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Postpartum pemphigoid gestationis.
Pemphigoid gestationis (PG) or herpes gestationis is a rare autoimmune subepidermal blistering disorder associated with pregnancy. The condition typically develops during the second or third trimester of pregnancy, but has been rarely reported in the first trimester and postpartum period.
Thomas S, Rajan U, George S, George M.
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Pseudo-Pemphigoid Gestationis Eruption Following SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination with mRNA Vaccine [PDF]
Auto-immune reactions, including auto-immune bullous disease, have been reported following SARS-CoV-2 virus vaccination. Few cases of bullous pemphigoid are described, but there has been no case of pemphigoid gestationis.
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A 39-year-old woman in the 39th week of her fifth pregnancy presented with severe itching. In recent weeks she had developed an increasingly itchy rash on her trunk and arms. Upon examination we observed multiple erythematous plaques and vesicles. Histological examinations of two skin biopsies confirmed the diagnosis of pemphigoid gestationis.
Lardenoije CM +3 more
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Pemphigoid gestationis (herpes gestationis). [PDF]
During pregnancy, alterations in the appearance of the skin are common, ranging from normal cutaneous changes to changes that are pathological, recurrent, and specific to pregnancy. Pemphigoid gestationis (PG) is a specific dermatosis, which is a rare, pruritic, polymorphic, inflammatory, subepidermal, bullous dermatosis of pregnancy, and the post ...
Samson JF +6 more
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Pemphigoid Gestationis – Case Report and Review of Literature [PDF]
Justyna Ceryn +2 more
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Biologic therapy for refractory pemphigoid gestationis: An evidence-based systematic review [PDF]
Siddhartha Sood +2 more
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Pemphigoid gestationis treated with dupilumab. [PDF]
Chen RE, Yokoyama CC, Anadkat MJ.
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