Abstract
We report a case of neonatal pemphigus. A female infant was born to a 37-year-old gravida 1, para 0 mother who had been regularly treated for pemphigus vulgaris for the past 13 years. In the 2 years prior to the birth, she had been well controlled with predonisone, 15 mg daily. After becoming pregnant, the mother developed erosive lesions in her mouth and on her trunk. The infant also had bullous lesions on her extremities and also showed low titers of epidemal intercellular antibodies in her sera. The skin lesions resolved within 2 weeks, but the pemphigus antibody continued to be positive for 2.5 years.
