Bullous pemphigoid is an acute or chronic autoimmune skin disease, involving the formation of blisters, more appropriately known as bullae, at the space between the skin layers epidermis and dermis. It is classified as a type II hypersensitivity reaction. ==Signs and symptoms== Clinically, the earliest lesions may appear urticarial (like hives). T...
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a chronic, generalized skin disorder characterized by an eruption of serum-filled vesicles (blisters). These vesicles form under the epidermis, the ...
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<dermatology> Form of pemphigoid (which also affects mucous membranes), in which blisters (bulli) form on the skin. Patients have circulating antibody (usually IgG) to basement membrane of stratified epithelium although the antibody titre does not correlate with the severity of the disease. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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Form of pemphigoid (which also affects mucous membranes), in which blisters (bulli) form on the skin. Patients have circulating antibody (usually IgG) to basement membrane of stratified epithelium-although the antibody titre does not correlate with the severity of the disease.
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. a chronic, generally benign disease, most commonly of old age, characterized by tense nonacantholytic bullae in which serum antibodies are localized to hemidesmosomal components of the epidermal basement membrane, causing detachment of the entire thickness of the epidermis.
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Our Bullous pemphigoid Main Article provides a comprehensive look at the who, what, when and how of Bullous pemphigoid Bullous pemphigoid: A disease characterized by tense blisters on the skin. The condition is caused by antibodies that accumulate abnormally in a layer of the skin called the basement membrane. The antigen of this autoimmune disease...
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A skin disorder producing large blisters. Bullous Pemphigoid often occurs in the elderly and is often chronic.
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Bullous pemphigoid is an autoimmune reaction to an antigen in the basement membrane zone. Clinically, it is characterized by tense blisters on an erythematous background. It is more common in the elderly. Fatalities, when they occur, are generally secondary to systemic infection from large areas of denuded skin. Bullous pemphigoid is less likely to...
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A very rare autoimmune skin disease characterized by the production of autoantibodies and the development of vesicles and bullae beneath the epidermis.
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Autoimmune eruption of tense bullae (raised, circumscribed, serous filled lesions) occurring in the elderly, most often chronic and benign in nature.
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An immune mediated skin disease in which autoantibodies are directed against antigens in basement membrane zone.
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A skin disorder producing large blisters. Bullous Pemphigoid often occurs in the elderly and is often chronic.
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