• A rare autoimmune bullous skin disease characterized by pruritus with or without polymorphic skin eruptioneruptions, affecting pregnant women typically during the second and third trimester. Skin eruptions may include erythematous papules and plaques, erythema multiforme-like or eczematous lesions, papulovesicles, and bullae, and typically affects the umbilicus, abdomen, and extremities.
  OrphaNet
  INSERM, 2021
• An autoimmune bullous dermatitis that develops during pregnancy, most often during the second and third trimesters.
  NCI
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• An itching, autoimmune, bullous SKIN disease that occurs during the last two trimesters of PREGNANCY and PUERPERIUM. It also affects non-pregnant females with tissue of PLACENTA origin, such as CHORIOCARCINOMA; or HYDATIDIFORM MOLE. It exhibits antigenic and clinical similarity to bullous pemphigoid (PEMPHIGOID, BULLOUS). This disease does not involve herpes viruses (old name, herpes gestationis).
  NLM Medical Subject Headings
  U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
• Pemphigoid gestationis is a pruritic papular and vesicobullous eruption that occurs during pregnancy or postpartum. Diagnosis is clinical or by skin biopsy. Treatment is with topical or systemic corticosteroids.
  Merck Manuals
  Merck & Co., Inc., 2025
• Pemphigoid gestationis (PG) is a rare autoimmune bullous dermatosis of pregnancy (see the image below). The disease was originally named herpes gestationis on the basis of the morphological herpetiform feature of the blisters, but this term is a misnomer because pemphigoid gestationis is not related to or associated with any active or...
  Medscape
  WebMD, 2025
• Pemphigoid gestationis (PG) is a pregnancy-associated, autoimmune skin disorder. It usually begins abruptly during the 2nd or 3rd trimester of pregnancy, but it can begin at any time during pregnancy. Signs and symptoms often include the sudden formation of very itchy, red bumps and/or blisters on the abdomen and trunk, which may then...
  NIH Genetic and Rare Diseases
  National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences