Roche Holding AG (ROG)’s top-selling drug Rituxan effectively cured most cases of a rare and deadly skin disease in a patient study that suggests the medicine may replace steroids as the standard treatment. In a trial among 22 people with…
Roche’s Rituxan Cures Rare Skin-Blistering Disease in Study
עם התגית: immune system, lesions, Medicine, patients, pemphigus, rituxan, rituximab, Roche, steroids
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Effektivität und Sicherheit von Rituximab beim Pemphigus: Ergebnisse aus dem Deutschen Register für Autoimmunerkrankungen
Klinik für Dermatologie, Allergologie und Venerologie, Universität Lübeck, Deutschland Klinik für Dermatologie und Allergologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Deutschland Klinik und Poliklinik für Dermatologie und Venerologie, Universität Köln, Deutschland Klinik für Dermatologie, Technische Universität Dresden, Deutschland Abteilung Rheumatologie, LMU München, Deutschland Abteilung…
Pemphigus Subaigu Malin à Bulles Extensives
Variété de pemphigus vulgaire se caractérisant par la présence de bulles qui finissent par confluer (se rejoindre) et se rompre, créant ainsi de vastes surfaces laissant la peau à vif qui suinte et qui devient très douloureuse. Généralités Le pemphigus…
Pemphigus Vulgaris Activity Score and Assessment of Convergent Validity.
Pemphigus is a rare autoimmune blistering disease with different phenotypes. The evaluation of therapeutic interventions requires a reliable, valid and feasible to use measurement. However, there is no gold standard to measure the disease activity in clinical trials. In this…
Oral Inflammation in Small Animals
The oral cavity can be affected by a wide variety of disorders characterized by inflammation of the gingiva and/or oral mucosa. In dogs and cats, differential diagnoses for generalized oral inflammatory disorders include plaque-reactive mucositis, chronic gingivostomatitis, eosinophilic granuloma complex,…
Bullous pemphigoid and internal diseases – A case-control study.
To study associations of bullous pemphigoid (BP) with internal diseases, we conducted a retrospective case control study assessing the frequency of selected diseases – diabetes mellitus, neurological diseases, malignant tumors, benign prostate hyperplasia, hypertension and ischemic heart disease in patients…
“Coaches Corner” – New Coaches, New Perspectives
Although everyday (whether I like it or not), I am reminded what it is like to live with Pemphigus and Pemphigoid, I am fortunate because I have the opportunity to share my story and build relationships. Recently, the IPPF has…
The frequency of osteoporosis in patients with pemphigus vulgaris on treatment
Background: Pemphigus vulgaris was almost fatal before the advent of glucocorticoids. Unfortunately, the high doses and prolonged administration of glucocorticoids, which often needed to control the disease, result in numerous adverse effects many of which are serious. Aims: To evaluate the patients…
Resistant oral mucosal lesions in pemphigus vulgaris responsive to double filtration plasmapheresis: First case report from Turkey.
Background Adjuvant therapeutic methods are employed when pemphigus vulgaris (PV) fails to be controlled by conventional corticosteroid treatment. Objective: The efficacy of double filtration plasmapheresis (DFPP) was investigated in a PV patient with severe, refractory mucosal disease. Methods A total…
עם התגית: Double filtration plasmapheresis, pemphigus vulgaris
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