Autoimmune Bullous Diseases: Text and Review

ISBN-13: 9783030915568 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Horváth, Barbara

Opis

This extensively revised new edition provides a quick study and reference guide for physicians who treat patients with autoimmune bullous diseases (AIBDs), the most life-threatening inflammatory diseases of the skin. AIBDs are rare, comprising less than 1% of the dermatological patients and as such, they are often given little focus in general dermatology literature, despite being complicated and demanding diseases to manage. Chapters cover the latest developments in diagnostic assays and the use of pemphigoids. New contributions include how AIBD affects children and the care of wounds in instances of blistering disease from the perspective of a nurse practitioner.  Autoimmune Bullous Diseases: Text and Review is written in a direct and simple style with tables and figures to illustrate this difficult field practically. At the end of each chapter the reader is challenged to check the learned matter with multiple-choice questions, while it contains protocols and follows international guidelines, making it suitable study material for courses on autoimmune bullous diseases. Residents and researchers in dermatology and adjacent disciplines will find this book useful as a quick guide when dealing with these patients.

Spis treści

Basic Principles of the Immune System and Autoimmunity

Dermatological examination of bullous diseases

How to take a biopsy

Direct Immunofluorescence Microscopy

Indirect Immunofluorescence Microscopy

Immuno-assays

Structure of Desmosomes

Pemphigus vulgaris

Pemphigus foliaceus

Paraneoplastic pemphigus

IgA Pemphigus

Drug-induced pemphigus

Structure of hemidesmosomes and the epidermal basement membrane zone

Pemphigoid Diseases Affecting the Skin

Mucous membrane pemphigoid

Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita

Bullous systemic lupus erythematosus

Linear IgA bullous dermatosis

Drug-induced Pemphigoid and Linear IgA Disease

Dermatitis herpetiformis

Stevens Johnson syndrome / toxic epidermal necrolysis and erythema exsudativum multiforme

Porphyria Cutanea Tarda and Pseudoporphyria 

Bullous dermatitis artefacta

Autoimmune bullous diseases in childhood 

Wound care in autoimmune bullous diseases 

Appendix: Patient support groups and international centers for AIBD

O autorze

Professor Barbara Horváth is a dermatologist head of the national Center for blistering diseases affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.