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What treatment combination approach would you recommend for mucous membrane pemphigoid?

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Dermatology · Northwell Health Physician Partners Dermatology At Lake Success

First, it is important to know the extent and severity of the disease (oral, ocular, esophageal); the type of inflammatory infiltrate on histopathology (neutrophils, eosinophils, or cell-poor); and the results of salt split skin and antibody titers on monkey esophagus and/or target antigens (collage...

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Dermatology · Duke Health

I agree with @Dr. First Last. I have a low threshold for going to rituximab in these patients. There is a huge spectrum of severity of this disease; however, and occasionally, topicals alone are effective for mild disease, but always monitor ocular and other non-oral disease very closely and bring o...

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Dermatology · Dept Dermatology Jefferson Medical College

I used to participate in a collaborative clinic with oculoplastics, cornea and derm and the collaboration was critical in treating this terrible disease.

MMP is not at all a benign disease. It's ocular scarring is irreversible and disease activity in the eye is hard to monitor since past damage will...

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