Cicatricial pemphigoid: diagnosis and treatment

Int Ophthalmol Clin. 1996 Winter;36(1):41-60. doi: 10.1097/00004397-199603610-00007.

Abstract

Cicatricial pemphigoid is a systemic autoimmune disease with both ocular and extraocular manifestations. Its effect on the eyes is characterized by chronic cicatrizing conjunctivitis and progressive conjunctival sub-epithelial fibrosis with resultant fornix foreshortening, symblepharon formation, trichiasis, meibomian, and lacrimal duct obstruction resulting in sicca syndrome, ocular surface keratinization, and eventually blindness. Extraocular manifestations include stricture formation of the esophagus, trachea, anus, or vagina. OCP is characterized by deposition of immunoreactants at the conjunctival basement membrane zone, initiating a type II hypersensitivity reaction. Demonstration of this deposition can be done using immunofluorescence or immunoperoxidase technique.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Autoimmune Diseases* / diagnosis
  • Autoimmune Diseases* / etiology
  • Autoimmune Diseases* / therapy
  • Biopsy
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Eye Diseases* / diagnosis
  • Eye Diseases* / etiology
  • Eye Diseases* / therapy
  • Humans
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Pemphigoid, Benign Mucous Membrane* / diagnosis
  • Pemphigoid, Benign Mucous Membrane* / etiology
  • Pemphigoid, Benign Mucous Membrane* / therapy