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Rosuvastatin-induced pemphigoid
Aizuri A Murad1, Maureen Connolly, Anne-Marie Tobin
1Dermatology Department, Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. aiz100@hotmail.com
Abstract:
Statins are widely prescribed medications and very well tolerated. Rosuvastatin is another member of this drug used to treat dyslipidaemia. It is a competitive inhibitor of the enzyme 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase. Immunobullous disease is usually idiopathic but can be drug-induced. Both idiopathic and iatrogenic forms share common clinical and immunohistological features. The authors report a case of pemphigoid induced by rosuvastatin, a commonly prescribed medication. To our knowledge, there is limited report on rosuvastatin associated with pemphigoid in the literature.
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