Japanese guidelines for the management of pemphigus

The Committee for Guidelines for the Management of Pemphigus was organized as one element of the Japanese Dermatological Association (JDA) and the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare (MHLW) Research Project on Measures for Research Committee for Intractable Skin Disease. Pemphigus has been defin...

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Published inJournal of dermatology Vol. 41; no. 6; pp. 471 - 486
Main Authors Amagai, Masayuki, Tanikawa, Akiko, Shimizu, Tomoko, Hashimoto, Takashi, Ikeda, Shigaku, Kurosawa, Michiko, Niizeki, Hironori, Aoyama, Yumi, Iwatsuki, Keiji, Kitajima, Yasuo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2014
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Subjects
autoantibody
desmoglein
diagnosis
Evidence-Based Medicine
Guidelines
Humans
Japan - epidemiology
Medical treatment
Pemphigus - drug therapy
Pemphigus - epidemiology
Pemphigus - etiology
Pemphigus - pathology
Severity of Illness Index
Skin - pathology
therapy
Japan
diagnosis
autoantibody
therapy
desmoglein
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Summary:The Committee for Guidelines for the Management of Pemphigus was organized as one element of the Japanese Dermatological Association (JDA) and the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare (MHLW) Research Project on Measures for Research Committee for Intractable Skin Disease. Pemphigus has been defined as a group of intractable autoimmune blistering diseases caused by anti‐desmoglein 1 and/or anti‐desmoglein 3 IgG autoantibodies by the MHLW. The diagnosis of this condition and the criteria for assessing its severity are based on suggestions from the MHLW Research Group. The clinical practice guidelines presented here are those that are currently recommended in Japan. However, symptoms and complications can vary widely among individual pemphigus patients, so not all therapies will be required to be in complete agreement with these guidelines.
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Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare
120 (7); 1443–1460, 2010.
Japanese Journal of Dermatology
This is the secondary English version of the original Japanese manuscript for pemphigus guideline published in the
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ISSN:0385-2407
1346-8138
DOI:10.1111/1346-8138.12486