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Pemphigus Blistering Disease

Topical corticosteroids are most useful in inflammatory dermatoses, such as eczematous dermatitis and psoriasis they may also be helpful in other skin diseases that have a prominent inflammatory component, such as autoimmune blistering diseases (e.g., bullous pemphigoid and pemphigus vulgaris) and lupus erythematosus. [Pg.487]

Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is a rare, serious, acute or chronic, blistering disease involving the skin and mucous membranes. [Pg.691]

Bullous skin diseases, autoimmune. Characterized by intra-epidermal or subepidermal blisters (eg. pemphigus vulgaris, bullous pemphigoid) and highly specific autoantibodies against components of the desmosome or hemidesmosome (eg. desmoglein 3, BP 180). May be idiopathic or paraneoplastic (caused by various lymphoproliferative malignancies). [Pg.228]

Monovalent organogold salts have been used, with mixed results, in the treatment of pemphigus (skin and mucous membrane blisters), lupus erythematosus, ulcerative colitis, Crohn s disease, various types of arthritis, bronchial asthma, bullous skin conditions, discoid lupus, several forms of rheumatism, ankylosing spondylitis affecting peripheral joints, kala-azar (caused by the flagellate protozoan Leishmania donovani... [Pg.322]

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