NOTE: The following article was provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (www.fda.gov). by Paula Kurtzweil, Public Affairs Staff, FDA You don’t have to look far to find a health product that’s totally bogus–or a consumer who’s totally unsuspecting.…
Arquivos Mensais: May 2000
How to Spot Health Fraud
Marcados com: effectiveness, hexanicontinate, nonscientific, pharmaceutical
Publicado em Health and Lifestyle
Publicado em Health and Lifestyle
Tests for Pemphigus
by Ernest H. Beutner, Ph.D.*Professor of Microbiology and Dermatology, University of Buffalo; School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; Buffalo, NY Patients with pemphigus may benefit by working with their doctors to gain a better understanding of the tests used to…
Marcados com: certificates, dermatology, erythematosus, evaluations, herpetiformis, laboratories, paraneoplastic
Publicado em Medical
Publicado em Medical
Diagnostic Patterns and Delays in PV: Experience With 99 Patients
By David A. Sirois, D.M.D., Ph.D.Department of Oral Medicine Pemphigus vulgaris is a chronic autoimmune disease affecting the mucosa and skin and resulting in epithelial acantholysis, bullae formation, and chronic ulceration.1 Skin lesions of pemphigus vulgaris present clinically with typical…
Marcados com: autoantibody, differential, immunosuppressant, mucocutaneous, nonduplicated
Publicado em Medical
Publicado em Medical
Why Lesions Occur at Different Sites
By Grant J. Anhalt, M.D. Johns Hopkins Dermatology I will attempt to clarify what we know about the antibody response in various forms of pemphigus and how the distribution of the targeted antigens affects the location of lesions. The synthesis…
Marcados com: acantholysis, autoantibodies, autoantibody, autoimmunity, dermatology, keratinocyte, manipulation, mucocutaneous, paraneoplastic
Publicado em Medical
Publicado em Medical
