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Autoimmune Diseases
Your finest weapon can become your greatest enemy…
"Like any other part of the body, defects can arise in the immune system. These disorders fall into two broad categories:
Immunodeficiency - when the immune system does not recognize invaders as being undesirable and therefore does not mobilize to destroy them.
Autoimmunity (self-destruction) - when the immune system fails to recognize 'self' as friendly and mounts an attack on itself.
Very early in life, most of the cells that could react with the body's own tissues are eliminated or, in the immunologist's terminology, clonally deleted. However, this process does not guarantee that the immune system will not, in various circumstances, turn nasty and attack the body that is its host. In fact autoimmunity can be caused by abnormalities or defects in almost any part of the immune process." Friendly Fire: Explaining Autoimmune Disease by David Isenberg, PhD and John Morrow, PhD
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Autoimmune Diseases - A List (56) |
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Reference: American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association |
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Alopecia Areata |
Lupus |
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Anklosing Spondylitis |
Meniere's Disease |
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Antiphospholipid Syndrome |
Mixed Connective Tissue Disease |
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Autoimmune Addison's Disease |
Multiple Sclerosis |
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Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia |
Myasthenia Gravis |
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Autoimmune Hepatitis |
Pemphigus Vulgaris |
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Behcet's Disease |
Pernicious Anemia |
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Bullous Pemphigoid |
Polyarteritis Nodosa |
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Cardiomyopathy |
Polychondritis |
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Celiac Sprue-Dermatitis |
Polyglancular Syndromes |
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFIDS) |
Polymyalgia Rheumatica |
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Chronic Inflam. Demyelinating |
Polymyositis and Dermatomyositis |
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Chronic Inflam. Polyneuropathy |
Primary Agammaglobulinemia |
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Churg-Strauss Syndrome |
Primary Biliary Cirrhosis |
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Cicatricial Pemphigoid |
Psoriasis |
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CREST Syndrome |
Raynaud's Phenomenon |
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Cold Agglutinin Disease |
Reiter's Syndrome |
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Crohn's Disease |
Rheumatic Fever |
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Discoid Lupus |
Rheumatoid Arthritis |
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Essential Mixed Cryoglobulinemia |
Sarcoidosis |
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Fibromyalgia |
Scleroderma |
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Grave's Disease |
Sjogren's Syndrome |
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Guillain-Barre |
Stiff-Man Syndrome |
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Hashimoto's Thyroiditis |
Takayasu Arteritis |
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Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis |
Temporal Arteritis/Giant Cell Arteritis |
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Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura (ITP) |
Ulcerative Colitis |
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IgA Nephropathy |
Uveitis |
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Insulin Dependent Diabetes (Type I) |
Vasculitis |
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Lichen Planus |
Vitiligo |
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The material on this web site about autoimmune diseases is offered to you for informational purposes only and is not meant to be interpreted as medical advice to diagnose, treat or cure any disease. You should consult with a qualified health professional whenever your health is in question. |
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