Pemphigus

M Kasperkiewicz, CT Ellebrecht, H Takahashi… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2017 - nature.com
Pemphigus is a group of IgG-mediated autoimmune diseases of stratified squamous
epithelia, such as the skin and oral mucosa, in which acantholysis (the loss of cell adhesion) …

Alopecia areata and health‐related quality of life: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

F Rencz, L Gulácsi, M Péntek… - British journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background No systematic review has yet evaluated the available evidence on health‐
related quality of life (HRQOL) in alopecia areata (AA). Objectives To conduct a systematic …

Pemphigus

E Schmidt, M Kasperkiewicz, P Joly - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Pemphigus consists of a group of rare and severe autoimmune blistering diseases mediated
by pathogenic autoantibodies mainly directed against two desmosomal adhesion proteins …

Association between inflammatory skin disease and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular co-morbidities in US adults: analysis of nationwide inpatient sample data

MC Kwa, JI Silverberg - American journal of clinical dermatology, 2017 - Springer
Background Psoriasis, atopic dermatitis or eczema (AD-E), pemphigus, bullous pemphigoid
(BP), and hidradenitis are chronic inflammatory skin disorders associated with systemic …

Oral autoimmune vesicobullous diseases: Classification, clinical presentations, molecular mechanisms, diagnostic algorithms, and management

S Leuci, E Ruoppo, D Adamo, E Calabria… - Periodontology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Mucocutaneous blistering autoimmune diseases are a group of systemic, rare, chronic
disorders characterized by humoral‐mediated immunologic mechanisms against epithelial …

Burden of pemphigus vulgaris with a particular focus on women: a review

N Kianfar, S Dasdar, H Mahmoudi… - … journal of women's …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Pemphigus vulgaris is a chronic autoimmune mucocutaneous blistering disorder. Apart from
the disease itself, other aspects of patients' life, including psychological, social, and …

Validity of the EQ‐5D in patients with pemphigus vulgaris and pemphigus foliaceus

B Tamási, V Brodszky, M Péntek… - British Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background No studies to date have employed the EuroQoL EQ‐5D questionnaire to assess
health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with pemphigus. Objectives To evaluate the …

Association between quality of life and clinical characteristics in patients with morphea

G Bali, S Kárpáti, M Sárdy, V Brodszky, B Hidvégi… - Quality of Life …, 2018 - Springer
Background Morphea can lead to considerable cosmetic or functional impairment;
nevertheless, health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is rarely documented in adult morphea …

Assessing the correlation between disease severity indices and quality of life measurement tools in pemphigus

RL Krain, CJ Kushner, M Tarazi, RG Gaffney… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Pemphigus, an autoimmune blistering disease that affects the skin and mucous membranes,
adversely impacts patients' quality of life (QOL). While there are various QOL measurement …

Disease burden of patients with pemphigus from a societal perspective

V Brodszky, B Tamási, K Hajdu, M Péntek… - Expert review of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Cost-of-illness studies are widely used for healthcare decision-making;
however, no such study is available in pemphigus from the societal perspective. The …