Pemphigus Vulgaris: Short Time to Relapse in Patients Treated in a Danish Tertiary Referral Center.

ABSTRACT: Pemphigus vulgaris is an autoimmune skin disorder with development of blisters in the skin and mucosa, and it can be a life-threatening disease if not treated. Corticosteroids have been a cornerstone for treating PV, but because of side effects the treatment is combined with other conventional immune modulating drugs and rituximab. The Danish treatment protocol for pemphigus vulgaris is similar to the other Scandinavian countries, and therefore this study is of importance for clinicians in the Scandinavian countries as well as other European countries. We retrospectively identified all patients with Pemphigus vulgaris in our tertiary center over a 7-year period in order to register patient characteristics, treatment, adverse events, comorbidities and the effect of prednisolone dose on remi

SUBMITTER: Mohamad AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6896223 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature