A case of cicatricial conjunctival pemphigoid

A clinical case of a rare and severe chronic autoimmune disease - pemphigoid scarring of the conjunctiva in a female patient aged 66 is presented. The etiological diagnosis was established only 14 months later, when serious complications, including a severe syndrome of dry eye, symblepharon and changes in the cornea manifested in a vascularized pannus. Ophthalmologists are recommended to be watchful of scarring pemphigoid in cases of persistent and severe bilateral conjunctivitis, torpid to conventional treatment or showing signs of cicatrical mucosa changes, especially in the lower arch, and combined with bullous-erosive lesions of mucosa especially in the oral cavity, epipharynx, or skin. Keywords: scarring pemphigoid, conjunctivitis, symblepharon, dry eye syndrome // Russian Ophthalmological Journal, 2016; 3: 81-4. doi: 10.21516/2072-0076-2016-9-3-81-84