title: Linear IgA disease: clinical presentation, diagnosis, and pathogenesis.
abstract: Linear IgA disease is one of the rarer subepidermal blistering diseases. Linear IgA disease is a chronic, acquired, autoimmune blistering disease that is characterized by subepidermal blistering and linear deposition of IgA basement membrane antibodies. The disease affects both children and adults and, although there are some differences in their clinical presentations, there is considerable overlap with shared immunopathology and immunogenetics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Churchill Hospital, Old Road, Oxford OX3 7LJ, UK. vanessa.venning@orh.nhs.uk
authors.forename: Vanessa A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Venning
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001323:Autoantibodies / Q000276:immunology; D001324:Autoantigens / Q000276:immunology*; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000276:immunology / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007070:Immunoglobulin A / Q000276:immunology*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D024041:Non-Fibrillar Collagens / Q000276:immunology*; D012867:Skin / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology; D012872:Skin Diseases, Vesiculobullous / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000276:immunology / Q000503:physiopathology; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000150:complications; D000097805:Collagen Type XVII
chemical_list: D001323:Autoantibodies; D001324:Autoantigens; D007070:Immunoglobulin A; D024041:Non-Fibrillar Collagens; D000097805:Collagen Type XVII