Treatment of pemphigus vulgaris with protein A immunoadsorption: Case report of long-term history showing favorable outcome

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1051, Issue , 2005, Pages 591-596

  Frost, Nina ^a   Messer, Gerald ^b   Fierlbeck, Gerhard ^a   Risler, Teut ^a   Lytton, Simon D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c SeraDiaLogistics   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anti Dsg autoantibodies; Pemphigus; Protein A immunoadsorption

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DESMOGLEIN 1; DESMOGLEIN 3; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISOLONE; PROTEIN A; ROFECOXIB;

ADULT; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORTICOSTEROID INDUCED OSTEOPOROSIS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CUSHINGOID SYNDROME; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOADSORPTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; PEMPHIGOID; PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 25444488731     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1361.103     Document Type: Conference Paper

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