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Search Results for pemphigus
Abstract Number: 561
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 69-year-old male with no significant medical history presented to his primary care provider with a 6-week history of progressive rash with painful lesions involving the oral mucosa, face, scalp, back, arms, legs, and groin. The condition was initially treated as a fungal process. In the setting of rapidly progressive oral erosions and [...]
Abstract Number: 636
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 58-year-old male with previously treated non-Hodgkin lymphoma and multiple myeloma was admitted with 3 weeks of progressively worsening mucocutaneous blisters. The initial pruritic blister was located on the right arm and progressively spread to include his extremities, chest, back, and groin (covering 60% TBSA), with mucosal involvement, and an inability to tolerate [...]
Abstract Number: 848
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: 63M with severe primary closed angle glaucoma, DMII, pemphigus vulgaris (PV) presents to ED with skin lesions over most body. Functional status impaired due to lower extremity edema, oral lesions resulting in odynophagia and malnutrition. PV recently diagnosed via skin biopsy on H&E stain without immunofluorescence following new blisters beginning on tongue, hard [...]
Abstract Number: 0749
SHM Converge 2025
Case Presentation: A 34-year-old male presented with 3 months of sores on his oral mucous membranes, rash, and a 50 lb weight loss felt to be due to pain with eating. He was seen by various providers in the outpatient setting and took courses of Valacyclovir, Azithromycin, and steroids without improvement. On initial presentation, there [...]