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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2021

Emerging Biomarkers and Therapeutic Strategies for Refractory Bullous Pemphigoid.

Tong Zhou, Bin Peng, Songmei Geng

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tong ZhouDepartment of Dermatology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Bin PengDepartment of Dermatology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Songmei GengDepartment of Dermatology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is the most common autoimmune subepidermal blistering disorder in the elderly. Systemic and topical use of glucocorticoids and immunosuppressants has been shown to be effective in most patients. However, refractory BP patients are challenged to clinicians with severe clinical symptoms, resistance to treatment, and high relapse rate. How to predict and assess the refractory and severity of bullous pemphigoid is the key issue in clinical practice, and the urgent need for precision medicine in refractory patients is driving the search for biomarkers and biologics. Recently, some biomarkers, such as the level of specific autoantibodies and released cytokines, have been proposed as the potential parameters to reflect the disease severity and predict the treatment response and relapse of refractory BP. Moreover, new biologics targeting pathogenic antibodies, complement, Th2 axis, eosinophils, and Th17 axis have shown potent efficacy on refractory BP. Here, we review the literature and give an overview of emerging biomarkers and therapeutic strategies for refractory bullous pemphigoid to improve the prognosis of the patient.

Indexed as

BiomarkersAnimalsAutoantibodiesCytokinesDisease ManagementDisease SusceptibilityHumansImmunoglobulin EImmunoglobulin GInflammation MediatorsLeukocytesPemphigoid, BullousPrognosisSeverity of Illness IndexAutoantibodiesBiomarkersCytokinesImmunoglobulin EImmunoglobulin GInflammation Mediatorsbiologicsbiomarkersbullous pemphigoidprognosisrefractoryrelapseseverity

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PMID34504496
PMCPMC8421646
OpenAlexW3194818969

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