Abstract
Autoimmune mucocutaneous blistering diseases (AMBD) are a group of potentially fatal diseases that affect the skin and mucous membranes. AMBD have different target antigens as well as variable clinical presentation, course, and prognosis. The mainstay of conventional immunosuppressive therapy (CIST) for AMBD is long-term high-dose systemic corticosteroids and immunosuppressive agents. Such therapy has proven effective in many patients; however, in some patients, the disease continues to progress with significant sequelae such as blindness, loss of voice, anal, and vaginal stenosis which causes poor quality of life. Furthermore, the CIST may have some serious side effects including opportunistic infections which may cause death. Immune globulin intravenous (IGIV) therapy has been reportedly used in the management of patients with AMBD refractory to CIST. IGIV has shown to be more clinically beneficial than CIST by bringing about long-term clinical remission and less recurrence. The high cost of the IGIV is of concern to patients, physicians, and insurance companies. In this report, we compare the cost of IGIV to that of CIST in treating a cohort of 15 mucous membrane pemphigoid (MMP), 10 ocular cicatricial pemphigoid (OCP), 15 b...Continue Reading
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