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Mitis junctional epidermolysis bullosa (also known as "Nonlethal junctional epidermolysis bullosa") is a skin condition characterized by scalp and nail lesions, also associated with periorificial nonhealing erosions. [1]: 599 Mitis junctional epidermolysis bullosa is most commonly seen in children between the ages of 4 and 10 years old.
Junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB) is an inherited disease affecting laminin and collagen. This disease is characterized by blister formation within the lamina lucida of the basement membrane zone [ 13 ] : 599 and is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner.
In 2017, PEOPLE spoke to Brandon Joseph, who is living with the rare disease epidermolysis bullosa. While many patients die during infancy, Joseph is now thriving at 20 ... Life expectancy for EB ...
Junctional epidermolysis bullosa (medicine) Junctional epidermolysis bullosa (veterinary medicine) This page was last edited on 4 April 2024, at 10:17 (UTC). Text is ...
[2] [14] [15] The risk associated with UV radiation correlates with cumulative exposure rather than early-life exposure. [16] Tanning beds have emerged as a significant source of UV radiation. Genetic predispositions, such as xeroderma pigmentosum [ 17 ] and certain forms of epidermolysis bullosa , [ 18 ] also increase susceptibility to cSCC.
Blistering in Bart syndrome represents a form of epidermolysis bullosa caused by ultrastructural abnormalities in the anchoring fibrils. Genetic linkage of the inheritance of the disease points to the region of chromosome 3 near the collagen, type VII, alpha 1 gene ( COL7A1 ).
Bullous pemphigoid (a type of pemphigoid) is an autoimmune pruritic skin disease that typically occurs in people aged over 60, that may involve the formation of blisters in the space between the epidermal and dermal skin layers.
Mitis junctional epidermolysis bullosa (nonlethal junctional epidermolysis bullosa) Mitochondrial myopathy–encephalopathy–lactic acidosis–stroke syndrome; Multiple lentigines syndrome (cardiocutaneous syndrome, Gorlin syndrome II, lentiginosis profusa syndrome, LEOPARD syndrome, progressive cardiomyopathic lentiginosis) Multiple pterygium ...