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MC autoimmune blistering disease
Bullous pemphigoid
Pephigus Foliaceus
all ages
red crusting blisters
chest, under eyes
few, fragile

called pemphigus erythematous when w SLE

drugs: PCN-D, captopril

IgG and C3 (upper epi)
Pemphigus
elderly
oral
esophageal erosion
flaccid blisters
NO itch
NIKOLSKY's

NO FACE

IgG (mid epi)

rare paraneoplastic pemphigus
pemphigus erythematous
pemphigus foliaceus with SLE
Cicatrical Pemphigoid
elderly
oral blisters/erosions
EYES
conjunctival fibrosis with blindenss

may follow SJS

few blisers face, neck, chest

NO BODY

tense blisters, heal with scars

ITCH

IgG and C3 (DEJ)
Pemphigoid
elderly

ITCH

URTICARIAL plaques

PALMS and SOLES

Nikolsky's

Tense blisters

IgG and C3 (DEJ)
Dermatitis Herpetiformis
middle age
SEVERE ITCH

burning vesicles
Gluten-senstive enteropathy

Serum IgA-Ema
IgA Fibrin dermis

rare SMALL BOWEL LYMPHOMA
Subcorneal Blisters
Candida Albicans
Impetigo
Milaria crystallina
SSS
Subcorneal pustular dermatosis

"MISS Canada"
Granular Layer Blisters
bullous Ichthyosiform erythroderma
Pemphigus foliaceus
Pemphigus erythematous
Spinous Layer Blisters (upper and mid epi)
upper and mid epidermis

Dermatophyte
Dyshyrosis
Eczema
Friction
Insect bite and scabies
Miliaria rubra
Viral (HSV, zoster)

"MF DIVE"
Spinous Layer (lower and suprabasal epi)
Benign familial chronic pemphigus
Keratosis follicularis
Pemphigus vulgaris
transient acantholytic dermatosis

"PT BK"
Basal Cell Blisters
EM
Epidermolysis bullosa simplex
Fixed drug
Kerosene necrosis
LP
TEN

"FEEL TEN"
Laminal Lucida Blisters
BP
Cicatrical Phemigoid
Dermatitis Herpetiformis
Epidermolysis Bullosa acquisita
Eperidmolysis bullosa letalis
Herpes gesationis
Suction Blister
Thermal lesions (burns, cold, LN2)


"DEET HepSagBC"
Basal Lamina and sublaminar connective tissue blisters
Bullous dermatosis of hemodyalisis
Bulllous eruption SLE
Epidermolsis bullosa dystrophica
EM (dermal type)
ischemic bullae (drug OD)
Lichen slcerosus et atrophicus
Porphyria cutanea tarda

"HIP EEL"
Epidermal BM Zone
Basal K@
anchoring fillaments/Lamina Lucida
lamina densa
anchoring fibrils
interstitial collagen
anchoring plaque
dermis
bullous pemphigoid
pemphigoid gestationis
anchoring fillaments above lamina densa
attachement to basal K@
Mucous membrane pemphigod
lower than BP
anchoring fillaments to lamina densa
Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita
anchoring fibrils and interstitial collagen below lamina densa
lamina densa to dermis
pemphigus foliaceus autoag
desmoglein 1
pemphigus vulgaris
desmoglein 3 (desmoglein 1)
paraneoplastic pemphigus
desmoplakin 1, 2 (desmosomal plaque protein)
desmoglein 3
BP230
envoplakin
periplakin
anchoring fibrils
type 7 collagen
lamina densa to anchoring plaques in papillary dermis
anchoring plaques
papillary dermis
anchroing fillaments
within the lamina lucida
BP autoabs
BP180
BP 230

hemidesmosome and lamina lucida
Herpes Gestationis autoabs
BP180
BP230

hemidesmosome and lamina lucida
Cicatricial Pemphigoid autoabs
BP180
Laminin V

hemidesmosome and lamina lucida
Linear IgA autoabs
BP180
Laminin 5
anchorning filament-lamina densa of hemidesmosomes
mucous membrane pemphigoid (cicatricial pemphigoid)
Lamina 5
Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita autoag
Collagen 7
anchoring fibrils
IgA pemphigus
Desmocollin 1
Indirect Immunfluorescence IgA?
NO
circulating ab not known
indirect immunofluorescence negative
Indirect Immunofluorescence how?
serum clotted patient's blood incubate with animal epi/monkey esophagus
Dermatitis Herpetiformis
30s to 40s
extensor knees, buttocks, neck
back
BURNING, ITCHING
SYMMETRICAL
PRODROME BURNING THEN LESION

THYROID HYPOTHROID 14%

HLA-B8 60%
HLA class II ags HLA-DR3 95%, HLA-DDQw2 100%

celiac-type dental enamel defects (less severe, early childhood had celiac)

+ TRANSGLUTAMINASE autoabs

patchy areas o villous atrophy and inflammation
less severe small intestine thatn ordinary gluten senstive enteropathymalabsorption rare
< 20% malabsorption fat, D-xylose, or iron


IgA antiendomysial abs (IgA-EmA_ severity of gluten induced jejunum damage
Linear IgA bullous dermatosis
LABD

vancomycin 2 o 15 days

IgA BMZ +/- IgG
NO GLUTEN SENSITIVE ENTEROPATHY

+/- circulating IgA anti BMZ abs on indirect IF

NO TRANSGLUTAMINASE autoabs
IgA-EmA
severity of villous atrophy
dermatitis herpetiformis

no if gluten free diet x one year
Dermatitis Herpetiformis cancer?
Lymphoma
on non-gluten free diet
Linear IgA bullous dermatosis
drug?
LABD

vancomycin 2 to 14 days
LABD
linear IgA at BMZ
no gluten enteropathy
some w circulating IgA autoabs
No IgA autoabs to transglutaminase (+ in DH)
IgA-EmA DH? indicator of ?
villious atrophy
Dermatitis Herpetiformis
itch?
burn?
oral symptoms?
itch: yes
burn: yes
oral symptoms: dryness/ulcers 63%
Dermatitis Herpatiforms
IgA anti-tTG abs
IggA antiendomysial abs to tissue transglutaminase (enzem that metabolized gliadin)

= villious atrophy in jenjunum

NOT IN IGA bullous dermatosis
Dermatitis Herpetiformis treatment?
Sulfones

DAPSONE: lysosomal stabilization
SULFAPYRIDINE
Dapsone side effects?
dose-related hemolysis, anemia, and methemoglobinemia (BLUE-GRAY CYANOSIS)

Check WBC and CBC q wk x 1 mth
then q mth x 6 mths, and then semiannually

No G6PD check AA and mediterranean

distal upper/lower neuropathy
foot drop, hands (rare sensory)
agranulocytosis and aplastic anemia (rare)


safe pregnancy
Medication reduces dose-dependent methemoglobinemia from Dapsone?
cimetidine
Sulfapyridine
medication used DH
no neuropathy
no hemolysis
short acting sulfonamide

sulfasalazine (azulfidine) metabolized to F-ASA (mesalamine) and sulfapyridine
Dapsone Hypersensitivity Reaction
4 weeks after starting
mono-like
exanthematous skin
hepatitis
hypothyroidism 3 months later

treatement prednisone
enterotoxin in gluten
gliadin
DH antibiotics?
tetracylcline or minocycline with nicotinamide treatment
Diabetic bullae
NO PAIN, DEEP
NON-INFLAMMED BASE
unknown cause ishemic?
Diabetic bullae
NO PAIN, DEEP
NON-INFLAMMED BASE
unknown cause ishemic?
paraneoplastic pemphigus cancer?
lymphoma
prevalence of pemphigus
0.1 to 0.5/100,000/yr
pemphigus HLA?

age of onset?
HLA-DR4 and HLA-DQ8 (jewish)
HLA-DR6 and HLA DQ5 (non-jewish)

50s
Bullous dibeticorum
no trauma
nonerythematous skin
lower legs and feet, but also arms
NO PAIN
heal spon
pemphigus vulgaris oral symptoms?
> 50% PV with oral lesions (can precede skin by several mths)
pemphigus vulgaris oral symptoms?
> 50% oral lesions/erosions
(may precede skin by mths)
may involve the larynx
Pemphigus etiology
predisposed and environment?

idiopathic and induced have same HLA
Fogo Selvagem
pemphigus foliaceus in rural S America
ags of infection agent mimic desmoglein 1? = immune response

Portuguese for wild ire
endemic pemphigus foliaceus Central South america
(Brazil, Colombia, Bolivai, Peru, Venezuela, Tunisia)

disappears when jungle is cleared
KIDS AND YOUNG ADULTS
Types of desmoglein
1, 2, 3

1, 3 stratafied squamous
pemphigus vulgaris target molecule
desmoglein 3 (Dsg3) transmembrane desmosomal component
mucosal dominant PV target molecule?
Desmoglein 3 (mucosal)
no desmoglein 1
Pempigus foliaceus target molecule
desmoglein 1
Pemphigus Vulgaris
clinical
oral lesions? painful?
itch?
Nikolsky's?
scarring?
MC pempigus
PAINFUL ORAL LESIONS
NO ITCH
SCALP, FACE, AXILLAE, ORAL CAVITY
+ Nikolsky's
NO scarring (with brown pig)
+/- esophageal mucosa

mortality 10% complications of steroid tx (previously bc of infection)
Pemphigus Vegetans
variant of PV
large verrucous confluent plaques and pustules
FLEXURAL, AXILLAE, GROIN
Pemphigus Foliaceus
age of onset?
race?
oral lesions?
distribution?
wide age compared to PV
no race
RARE ORAL LESIONS
butteryfly, SCALP, CHEST, UPPER BACK (seb derm)
PF
superficial pemphigus
well demarcated, no large eroded areas

desmoglein 1
Pemphigus Erythematous
PF and SLE
IgA Pemphigus
IgA abs epi cell surfaces
similar clinical and histo to subcorneal pustular dermatosis and PF
50% w circulating IgA anti-cell surface abs
Pemphigus antibodies DIF
IgG, strong IgG4, and C3 intercellular

Michel's transport media room temp DIF
Inidrect Immunofluorescence PV
75% pts +
monkey and pig espohagus

Dsg1 and Dsg3

no correlate circulating IgG with activity of disease - use clinical
Pemphigus treatment
STEROIDS high dose
topical clobetasol
cyclophosphamide
axathioprine
NO MTX (infections)
Cyclophosphamide
side effects?
pemphigus adjuvant treatment with steroids
BM, hemorrhagic cystitis, bladder fibrosis, reversbile alopecia, increased risk bladder ca, and lymphoma

check UA and CBC, drink po fluids
azathioprine
bm, liver, increased mal (loer than cyclophosphamide)

check BC and liver
IVIG pemphigus
can be monotherapy
pemphigus when to stop treatment?
DIF bx
80% with neg DIF no pemphigus at 5 yrs
Pemphigus assoc with?
MG abd thyoma (erythematous and vulgaris) (thyoma then MG then Pemphigus)
Drug induced pemphigus
2 groups
1. sulfhydryl radical (thiol drugs or SH drugs)
2. non-thiol drugs

10% mortality
atuoab same as nondrug pemphigus
Sulfhydral/thiol or SH drugs pemphigus
penicillamine (thiol)
5% patients get pemphigus
Captopril
thiol drugs spon recovery 40 - 50% (non-thiol only 15% recover)
thiol induce pemphigus, non-thiol induce pemphigus in predisposed patients
Paraneoplastic pemphigus
clinical?
oral lesions?
location?
other systems involved?
cause of death?
autoimmune
clinical and histo of SJS and PV
PAINFUL ORAL ULCERATIONS
CONJUNCTIVAL
POLYMORPHOUS SKIN LESIONS TRUNK, EXTREMITIES to blisters
DESMOSOMES AND HEMIDESMOSOMES

respiratory epi
BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS

does not always coniside with severity of underlying cancer
paraneoplastic pemphigus autoabs DIF
IgG and C3 cells
granular C3 basement membrane

histo similar to both em and pv
paraneoplastic vs pv?
use indirect immunoflourescence
rat bladder substrate

paraneoplastic circulating IgG anti-cell-sruface and ANTI-CYTOPLASMIC abs
BP
age?
race?
gender?
clinical
elderly
no race
no gender
drugs
BP antigens
BP230 (cytoplasmic)
BP180 (transmembrane glycoprotein of hemidesmosomes of epi basal cells)

IgG circulating and bound to lamina lucida BMZ

IgG bound to BMZ activate complement, chemnotzxis, degran of leukocytees
proteolytic enzymes mb destruction
SUBEPIDERMAL BLISTER
Diagnosis of Neoplasia-induced Pemphigus
3 Major or 2 major and 2 minor

MAJOR
1. Polymorphous mucocutaneous eruption
2. concurrent neoplasia
3. serum immunoprecipitation

MINOR
1. + cytoplasmic rat bladder indirect
2. intercellular and bmz on DIF
3. acantholysis
BP
oral?
preblistering stage?
itch?
palms and soles?
Nikolsky's?
spread? heals? compared to pv
mild oral transient 24%
hives
MOD TO SEVERE ITCH
PALMS AND SOLES, generalized
MC LOWER ABDOMEN, GROIN, FLEXOR EXTREMITIES
genitals 7%
CLUSTERS
Nikolsky's neg
no spread, heals rapidly (unlike pv)
sites of trauma
Variants of PB
vesicular
vegetating
hyperkeratotic
erythrodermic
generalized BP
prognosis poor
19% mortality 1 year
no fever
prog poor BP180
low albumin poor prog
BP Labs
periph eosinophilia 50%
IgE 85%

decrease IgE and BP180 IgG when remission
BP histo
subepi blisters
E@ bullae and dermis
BP DIF
IgG +/- C3, +/- IgA,IgM, and fibrin in LINEAR BAND BMZ
EBA vs BP
sodium chloride separate lamina lucida
IgG
BP on epi side (more IgG w C3)
EBA on dermal side
azathropine myelosupression?
TPMT thiopurine methyltransferase activity
intermediate or low
BP lesions scarring?
no scarring no milia
Cicatricial Pemphigoid
mucosal
localized BP? DIF?
all have circulating IgG
DIF may not be +
Localized BP types
1. Cicatricial (mucosal)
2. localized childhood vulvar pemphigoid
3. pretibial pemphigoid
4. localized chronic pemphigoid (Brunsting-Perry)
5. dyshidrosiform pemphigoid
6. pemphigoid vegetans

same circulating IgG as BP
DIF may be neg
Pretibial Pemphigoid
localized BP shins young women
nonscarring
Brunsting-Perry
Localized chronic pemphigoid
crops of grouped blisers on head and neck heal w atrophic scars
dyshidrosiform pemphigoid
Localized BP
vesiculobullous hemorrhagic lesiosn palms and soles
pemphigoid vegetans
Localized BP
erosive and vegetating plaques
Cicatricial Phemigoid
Mucousal Membrane Pemphigoid (MMP)
rare
chronic
subepi blistering
SCARRING
lamina lucida
40+ yrs
2F:1M
ORAL CAVITY AND EYE
FEW REMISSIONS (unlike BP)
MMP
Cicatricial Pemphigoid
oral 85% DESQUAMATIVE GINGIVITIS (mc)
PAINLESS nonilamed erosions
NO VERMILION BORDER (unlike pemphigus)
HOARSENESS 8% (laryngeal)
only oral - better prognosis
MMP
eyes?
mucosal membrane pemphigoid
ocular disease 65%
UNILATERAL conjunciviis then BILATERAL
FIBROSIS CONJUNCIVIAL EPI
shrinkage of conjunctival obliterateion of conjunctival sac
CORNEAL OPFACIFICAION AND PERFORATION
BLINDNESS 20%
remission 22% relapse
MMP treatment
topical steroids, intralesional steroids
DAPSONE then prednisone w/o dapsone
Cyclophosphamide then azatioprine
MMP eyes topical steroids?
no effective
Benign chronic bullous dermatosis of childhood
NONHEREDITARY
ONLY MODERATE ITCHING
CLUSTERS ON FACE (around mouth), LOWER TRUNK, INNER THIGHS, GENITALS

LINEAR IgA BMZ, circulating IgA abs
NORMAL JEJUNAL BX

remissions and relapses then no after puberty
DAPSONE then steroids
Herpes Gestationis (HG)
Pephigoid Gestationis
VERY ITCHY
1/50,000 preg

class II ags:HLA-DR3, HLA-DR4
class III ag: C4

IgG to 180 of hemidemosomes

2nd or 3rd trimester
2nd week postpartum
10% newborn cutaneous
increase prematurity
Herpes Gestationis
location
crops on abdomen and exremities and coalesce polycylic rings
NO SCARRING
post inflam hyperpig

menses and OCPs
HG DIF
BANDLIKE C3
IgG 10%
circulating IgG Herpes Gestationis Factor
fixes complement use complement innumolfluorescence

placenta transietn pemphigoid like skin lesions

PERIPH EOSINOPHILIA
HG Factor
fixes complement
use complemtn immunofluorescence

placenta

no indirect immunoflourescence
HG skin lesions?
polycyctic rings
abdomen and extremities
EBA
loc of blister?
scarring or milia?
response to therapy?
age?
Epidermolysis bullosa acquisia

rare
chronic
subepi
mucocuaneous
trauma
SCARRING AND MILIA

poor response to therapy
kids and adults
EBA autoab to?
type 7 collagen anchoring fibrils
Classic EBA
trauma blisters
MILD MUCOUS MEMBRANE
SCARS
BLISTERS ON NON-INFLAMMATORY BASE
PALMS, SOLES, KNEES
scarring alopecia and nail dystrophy

OCULAR COMMON blindness rare
BP-like BBA
50% EBA early disease
TENSE BLISTERS ERYTHEMATOUS INFLAMMATORY BASE
TRUNK AND FLEXURAL
ICHING
some lesions with scarring and milia
EBA DIF
LINEAR and HOMOGENOUS IgG and C3 MZ
Hailey-Hailey
rare auto dom
exposed to UV light
LONGITUDINAL WHITE BANDS fingernail 71%
SUCTION on normal skin subclinical abnormality k@adhesion
UV provcation test
Hailey-Hailey
nonintertriginous lesions
group pruritic vesicles red or noniflamed base
grouped in ANULAR OR SERPIGINOUS pattern
rupture quickly and ADVANCING RIM OF SCALE and crust
pale hhypogi center
crops of vesicles on border
heal spon in colder weather
Hailey-Hailey Intertriginous Lesions
mosit red fissured areas or vegetating warty papules and palques do not extend beyond opposing skin surfaces of the groin or aillae
chronic
Hailey-Hailey treatment
nonintertriinous lesions: oral ab, topical steroids
Intertriginous Lesions: topical steroids
Epidermolysis bullosa
3 groups
16 variants
genetic
minor trauma
NON-INFLAMMATORY blisers MECAHNOBULLOUS DISEASES
SCARRING OR NON-SCARRING

Epidermolysis bullosa simplex 92%
Dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa 5%
Jxnal epidermolysis bullosa 1%
EB clinical classificaion
scarring vs nonscarring

epidermolysis bullosa simplex no scarring
jxnal epidermolysis bullosa atrophy
dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa scarring
Histo EB classification
EBS epi basal layer
JEB BMZ
DEB dermis
Epidermolysis Bullosa Simplex
AUTO DOM
SPORADIC
INFANCY OR CHILDHOOD
HAND AND FEET or truma
NO SCARRING
INFECTION
Jxnal Epidermolysis Bullosa
AUTO RECESSIVE
NO PALMS AND SOLES
INFANCY
ATROPHY
NO SCARRING
MOUTH, LARYNX, EYES, ESOPHAGUS
DIE CHILDHOOD
Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa
AUTO DOM OR AUTO RECESSIVE
SEVERE RECESSIVE cycles of blistering and SCARRING
MITTEN DEFROMITY
EB dx
EM


Monoclonal abs
EB treatment
avoid trauma
DILANTIN (collagenase inhibitor) not useful for recessive DEB
Weber-Cockayne Disease
EBS mild blistering hands and feet
AUTO DOM
Newborn w blisters, pustules, erosions, and ulcerations
tests?
bacterial, viral, fungal, gram stain, wrigh's stain, tzanck smearl, KOH, and skin bx