Bullous/Blistering Skin Disorders

Questions discussed in this category

What initial workup do you perform when there is a concern for porphyria?

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How would you treat pemphigus foliaceous in an elderly patient intolerant to oral steroids?

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How would you approach treating patients with biopsy-proven Hailey- Hailey disease refractory to multiple oral therapies (i.e tetracyclines, naltrexone, apremilast, glycopyrrolate, Cellcept), and requiring monthly steroid tapers for disease flares?

The disease is responsive to ablative lasers however laser treatments are not an option.

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Do you routinely provide GI protection in the form of a PPI or histamine blocker for patients with immunobullous disease initiated on high doses of oral corticosteroids?

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If you have clinical suspicion for a paraneoplastic process (e.g. dermatomyositis or pemphigus), what work-up do you pursue?

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What treatment regimen do you start for patients who present with mucous membrane pemphigoid?

Have you prescribed Rituximab and IVIG simultaneously for patients?

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How do you manage patients with bullous pemphigoid who have IgE autoantibodies to BP180?

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How do you manage patients with cicatricial pemphigoid refractory to doxycycline and dapsone?

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Is it safe to offer head and neck radiotherapy to a patient with a diagnosis of porphyria such as erythropoietic protoporphyria or porphyria cutanea tarda?

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Papers discussed in this category

Head & neck, 2010-08

Severe radiation therapy-related soft tissue toxicity in a patient with porphyria cutanea tarda: a literature review.

Rheum Dis Clin North Am, 2020 Aug

Risk Factors and Cancer Screening in Myositis.

Rheumatology (Oxford),

A systematic review and meta-analysis to inform cancer screening guidelines in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.

JAMA Dermatol, 2022 Mar 01

Treatment of Familial Benign Chronic Pemphigus With Superficial Radiotherapy.

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