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Chronic Blistering Disease Part I

Chronic Blistering Disease Part I. Rick Lin, DO MPH The TEXAS CHIEF. MISS IOWA, USA. Pemphigus Vulgaris. Easily rupture bullae Bulla is clear at first but may become hemorrhagic or even seropurulent then form erosion

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Chronic Blistering Disease Part I

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  1. Chronic Blistering Disease Part I Rick Lin, DO MPH The TEXAS CHIEF

  2. MISS IOWA, USA

  3. Pemphigus Vulgaris • Easily rupture bullae • Bulla is clear at first but may become hemorrhagic or even seropurulent then form erosion • Appear first in the mouth and them commonly in the groin, scalp, face, neck, axillae, or genitals • Nikolsky sign is present

  4. Nikolsky sign vs. Asboe-Hansen • Nikolsky sign: absence of cohesion in the epidermis, upper layers are easily made to slip laterally by slight pressure or rubbing. • Asboe-Hansen sign: direct pressure on intact bulla leading to bulla-spread phenomenon

  5. Pemphigus Vulgaris • Mouth lesion first appear in 60% of the case • Mucosa with painful erosion • Mouth odor is offensive and penetratingly unpleasant • Esophagus may be involved and sloughing of entire lining to form a cast (esophagitis dissecans superficialis)

  6. Pemphigus Vulgaris • Epidemiology: M=F, usually 5th and 6th decades, rare in young person • Etiology: autoimmune blistering disease mediated by intercellular antibodies • IgG throughout epidermis, C3 reliably found • Desmoglein-3 antibody detected

  7. Pemphigus Vulgaris • Drugs which induces pemphigus • Penicillamine for treatment of RA, most often for foliaceous type • Captopril, penicillin, thiopronine, interleukin-2, rifampin

  8. The hallmark of pemphigusis the finding of IgG autoantibodies directed against the cell surface of keratinocytes. A Pemphigusvulgarissera containing anti-desmoglein 3 IgG alone stain the cell surfaces in the lower epidermis. B Pemphigusvulgarissera containing both anti-desmoglein 3 IgG and anti-desmoglein 1 IgG stain the cell surfaces throughout the epidermis. C Pemphigusfoliaceus sera, which contain only anti-desmoglein 1 IgG, stain the cell surfaces throughout the epidermis, but more intensely in the superficial layers.

  9. Pemphigus Vulgaris • Treatment: • Topical: Silvadene, Maalox for mouth • Systemic: Prednisone 60mg to 100mg daily • Systemic: Azathioprine (Imuran), cyclophasphamide (Cytoxin), Mexotrexate maybe used in combination • Repeat pemphigus antibody titer in 4-8 weeks after treatment. If not improving, increase prednisone up to 150mg/day • Solu-medrol IV pulse therapy at 1g/day over 2-3 hour period, repeat for 5 days if patient is not responding orally.

  10. Pemphigus Vulgaris • Use of an immunosuppresant is helpful in diminishing the need for corticosteroids. • Imuran is one of the best • Risk of death in pemphigus from side effect of oral prednisone is greater than the risk of death from the disease itself

  11. Pemphigus Vegetans • A variant of pemphigus vulgaris • Characterized by flaccid bullae that become erosions and form fungoid vegetation or papillomatous proliferations, especially in body folds • Histology finding are identicla with those of pemphigus vulgaris, but there is an increased papillary proliferations and marked epidermal hyperplasia.

  12. Pemphigus Foliaceus • Mild, chronic variety of pemphigus characterized by flaccid bullae and generalized or localized exfoliation. • Nikolsky sign present. Oral lesions rarely seen. • Desmoglein-1 antibody. • Patient with Pemphigus Foliaceus are not severely ill.

  13. Fogo Selvagem • AKA Brazilian Pemphigus • Endemic form of pemphigus foliaceus found in tropical regions • Histologically and immunohistologically identical to pemphigus foliaceus

  14. Pemphigus Erythematosus • Senear-Usher Syndrome • Resemble lupus erythematosus • Positive for lupus band in 80% of patients • Histologically resemble Pemphigus foliaceus • Dosage of prednisone required for control usually is much lower than that of Pemphigus Foliaceus

  15. Paraneoplastic Pemphigus • Mucosal lesions may present as lichenoid with Stevens-Johnson-like presentation • Skin lesions may appear as erythematous macules, lichenoid lesions, erythema multiforme-like lesion, flaccid bullae, and erosion. • Immunohistopathologic reveals IgG and C3.

  16. The characteristic clinical feature is severe intractable stomatitis that extends onto the vermilion lip.

  17. Intraepidermal Neutrophilic IgA Dermatosis • Generalized flaccid bullae, which may rapidly ruptured and crusted • Histological finding shows neutrophilic exocytosis and in some areas neutrophils arranged in a linear fashion at the dermal-epidermal junction. • Direct IF showed an intrercellular deposition of IgA with in epidermis with minimal staining of basal layer.

  18. Intraepidermal Neutrophilic IgA Dermatosis • Second subset of patients develop disease that more closely simulates subcorneal pustular dermatosis • Present much more like Sneddon-Wilkinson patient with serpiginous and annular pustules • Treatment with Dapsone is often effective at as low as 25mg per day.

  19. Bullous Pemphigoid • Large bullae • When rupture, shows large denuded area and do not materially increase in size. • Denuded areas show a tendency to heal spontaneously • Begins at a localized site, frequently the shin • Young girls maybe initially seen with localized vulvar erosion and ulcers that resemble signs of child abuse.

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