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Coexistent atypical bullous pemphigoid and systemic lupus erythematosus
Author(s) -
SZABÓ EVA,
HUSZ SÁNDOR,
KOVÁCS LÁSZLÓ
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1981.tb01714.x
Subject(s) - bullous pemphigoid , medicine , dermatology , pemphigoid , lupus erythematosus , antibody , systemic disease , basement membrane , autoimmune disease , immunopathology , immunology , pathology
SUMMARY A vesiculobullous eruption with clinical and histological features of bullous pemphigoid developed in a 38‐year‐old woman with proved systemic lupus erythematosus. The patient had a sulphone responsive blistering disease that was characterized by pruritic subepidermal bullae and linear, predominantly IgA basement membrane zone deposition and IgA pemphigoid antibodies in her sera. Because both diseases are associated with immune complexes of special immunoglobulin classes, this association may not be entirely fortuitous.