Clinical Features and Practical Diagnosis of Bullous Pemphigoid - 03/05/12
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Bullous pemphigoid (BP) represents the most common autoimmune subepidermal blistering disease. BP typically affects the elderly and is associated with significant morbidity. It has usually a chronic course with spontaneous exacerbations. The cutaneous manifestations of BP can be extremely protean. While diagnosis of BP in the bullous stage is straightforward, in the non-bullous stage or in atypical variants of BP signs and symptoms are frequently non-specific with eg, only itchy excoriated, eczematous, papular and/or urticarial lesions that may persist for several weeks or months. Diagnosis of BP critically relies on immunopathologic examinations including direct immunofluorescence microscopy and detection of serum autoantibodies by indirect immunofluorescence microscopy or BP180-ELISA.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keywords : Autoantibody, BP180, BP230, ELISA, Immunofluorescence microscopy
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A version of this article was previously published in Dermatologic Clinics 29:3. |
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The work is dedicated to Leonie and Justus, who came into being during the preparation of this manuscript, thereby changing the life of E.S. |
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Conflict of Interest: E.S. has a scientific cooperation with Euroimmun AG, Lübeck. R.d.S. and L.B. have nothing to disclose. |
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Funding: This work was in part supported by the Schleswig-Holstein Cluster of Excellence in Inflammation Research (DFG EXC 306/1, to E.S.), by grants of the European Community’s FP7 (Coordination Theme 1 HEALTH-F2-2008-200515) and the Swiss National Foundation for Scientific Research (31003A-121966 and 31003A-09811, to L.B.). |
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