Treatment of cicatricial pemphigoid with tetracycline and nicotinamide.
Cicatricial pemphigoid is a rare autoimmune blistering disease involving predominantly mucosal areas in elderly patients. It runs a chronic relapsing course. Immunosuppressive treatments are frequently complicated by adverse effects and require careful monitoring. A 69-year-old woman is reported who...
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| author | Poskitt, L Wojnarowska, F |
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| description | Cicatricial pemphigoid is a rare autoimmune blistering disease involving predominantly mucosal areas in elderly patients. It runs a chronic relapsing course. Immunosuppressive treatments are frequently complicated by adverse effects and require careful monitoring. A 69-year-old woman is reported who responded well to a simple regimen of combined tetracycline and nicotinamide after 15 years of inadequate disease control and numerous adverse effects from immunosuppressive agents. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:ac4898db-1f7f-4b76-b707-ab1a180689b42022-03-27T03:27:55ZTreatment of cicatricial pemphigoid with tetracycline and nicotinamide.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:ac4898db-1f7f-4b76-b707-ab1a180689b4EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford1995Poskitt, LWojnarowska, FCicatricial pemphigoid is a rare autoimmune blistering disease involving predominantly mucosal areas in elderly patients. It runs a chronic relapsing course. Immunosuppressive treatments are frequently complicated by adverse effects and require careful monitoring. A 69-year-old woman is reported who responded well to a simple regimen of combined tetracycline and nicotinamide after 15 years of inadequate disease control and numerous adverse effects from immunosuppressive agents. |
| spellingShingle | Poskitt, L Wojnarowska, F Treatment of cicatricial pemphigoid with tetracycline and nicotinamide. |
| title | Treatment of cicatricial pemphigoid with tetracycline and nicotinamide. |
| title_full | Treatment of cicatricial pemphigoid with tetracycline and nicotinamide. |
| title_fullStr | Treatment of cicatricial pemphigoid with tetracycline and nicotinamide. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Treatment of cicatricial pemphigoid with tetracycline and nicotinamide. |
| title_short | Treatment of cicatricial pemphigoid with tetracycline and nicotinamide. |
| title_sort | treatment of cicatricial pemphigoid with tetracycline and nicotinamide |
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