Mortality Rate in Bullous Pemphigoid: A Retrospective Monocentric Cohort Study
Author(s) -
Bégonia Cortès,
Elhem Khelifa,
L. Clivaz,
Simone Cazzaniga,
J.H. Saurat,
Luigi Naldi,
Luca Borradori
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.224
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1421-9832
pISSN - 1018-8665
DOI - 10.1159/000345625
Subject(s) - medicine , bullous pemphigoid , retrospective cohort study , mortality rate , cohort , gastroenterology , pemphigoid , chlorambucil , immunology , cyclophosphamide , chemotherapy , antibody
Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is the most common autoimmune blistering skin disease and is associated with an increased mortality. The end points of our study were to evaluate the mortality rate in a retrospective cohort of BP patients followed up to 5 years after the diagnosis and to determine prognostics factors.
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