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Descriptor English: Pemphigoid Gestationis
Descriptor Spanish: Penfigoide Gestacional
Descriptor penfigoide gestacional
Entry term(s) herpes gestacional
herpes gestationis
Scope note: Erupción ampollosoa pruriginosa y polimorfa que se produce en el embarazo o en el puerperio y que recurre en embarazos sucesivos.Enfermedad bullosa de la PIEL, autoinmune y con picor, que se produce durante los dos últimos trimestres del EMBARAZO y el PUERPERIO. También afecta a mujeres no embarazadas con tejidos procedentes de la PLACENTA, como el CORIOCARCINOMA o la MOLA HIDATIFORME. Presenta semejanza antigénica y clínica con el PENFIGOIDE AMPOLLOSO. Esta enfermedad no incluye al herpes virus (nombre antiguo, herpes gestationis).
Descriptor Portuguese: Penfigoide Gestacional
Descriptor French: Pemphigoïde gravidique
Entry term(s): Gestational Pemphigoid
Gestational Pemphigoids
Gestationi, Pemphigoid
Gestationis, Pemphigoid
Herpes Gestationis
Pemphigoid Gestationi
Pemphigoid, Gestational
Pemphigoids, Gestational
Tree number(s): C12.050.703.570
C17.800.865.700
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006559
Scope note: An itching, autoimmune, bullous SKIN disease that occurs during the last two trimesters of PREGNANCY and PUERPERIUM. It also affects non-pregnant females with tissue of PLACENTA origin, such as CHORIOCARCINOMA; or HYDATIDIFORM MOLE. It exhibits antigenic and clinical similarity to bullous pemphigoid (PEMPHIGOID, BULLOUS). This disease does not involve herpes viruses (old name, herpes gestationis).
Annotation: check the tags FEMALE and probably PREGNANCY
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Dermatitis Herpetiformis (1966-1975)
Public MeSH Note: 2006; see HERPES GESTATIONIS 1991-2005, see SKIN DISEASES, VESICULOBULLOUS 1976-1990
History Note: 2006 (1976)
DeCS ID: 29423
Unique ID: D006559
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1975/07/30
Revision Date: 2009/07/06
Pemphigoid Gestationis - Preferred
Concept UI M0010277
Scope note An itching, autoimmune, bullous SKIN disease that occurs during the last two trimesters of PREGNANCY and PUERPERIUM. It also affects non-pregnant females with tissue of PLACENTA origin, such as CHORIOCARCINOMA; or HYDATIDIFORM MOLE. It exhibits antigenic and clinical similarity to bullous pemphigoid (PEMPHIGOID, BULLOUS). This disease does not involve herpes viruses (old name, herpes gestationis).
Preferred term Pemphigoid Gestationis
Entry term(s) Gestational Pemphigoid
Gestational Pemphigoids
Gestationi, Pemphigoid
Gestationis, Pemphigoid
Herpes Gestationis
Pemphigoid Gestationi
Pemphigoid, Gestational
Pemphigoids, Gestational



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