Causes of acute adrenal insufficiency are mainly Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome, sudden withdrawal of long-term corticosteroid therapy and stress in patients with underlying chronic adrenal insufficiency. The latter is termed critical illness–related corticosteroid insufficiency. For chronic adrenal insufficiency, the major contributors are ...Autoimmune Disease
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Causes of acute adrenal insufficiency are mainly Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome, sudden withdrawal of long-term corticosteroid therapy and stress in patients with underlying chronic adrenal insufficiency. The latter is termed critical illness–related corticosteroid insufficiency. For...
Some of the substances require conversion into active substances ''in vivo'' (e.g., cyclophosphamide). Cyclophosphamide is one of the most potent immunosuppressive substances. In small dosages, it is very efficient in the therapy of systemic lupus erythematosus, autoimmune hemolytic anemias,...
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Causes of acute adrenal insufficiency are mainly Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome, sudden withdrawal of long-term corticosteroid therapy and stress in patients with underlying chronic adrenal insufficiency. The latter is termed critical illness–related corticosteroid insufficiency. For chronic adrenal insufficiency, the major contributors are ...
The cause is unknown, but it may result from either a viral infection or an autoimmune reaction. In the latter case it is a systemic autoimmune disease. Many people diagnosed with dermatomyositis were previously diagnosed with infectious mononucleosis and Epstein-Barr ...
Indole-3-carbinol can shift estrogen metabolism towards less estrogenic metabolites. SLE (or lupus), a currently incurable autoimmune disease, is associated with estrogen. In a study using mice bred to develop lupus, I3C was fed to one group while another group was ...
Scleroderma is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease characterized by fibrosis (or hardening), vascular alterations, and autoantibodies. There are two major forms: Limited systemic sclerosis/scleroderma cutaneous manifestations mainly affect the hands, arms and face. Previously called CREST syndrome in reference to ...
Some of the substances require conversion into active substances ”in vivo” (e.g., cyclophosphamide). Cyclophosphamide is one of the most potent immunosuppressive substances. In small dosages, it is very efficient in the therapy of systemic lupus erythematosus, autoimmune hemolytic anemias, Wegener’s ...
Discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) is an uncommon autoimmune disease of the basal cell layer of the skin. It occurs in humans and cats, more frequently occurring in dogs. It does not progress to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in dogs. SLE ...
They may be classified according to the means of hemolysis, being either intrinsic in cases where the cause is related to the RBC itself or extrinsic in cases where factors external to the RBC dominate. Intrinsic effects may include problems ...
gluten-sensitive neuropathies without a clear cause is on the rise. These ”idiopathic” neuropathies were first identified by screening for anti-gliadin IgG (AGA). The criteria has been critiqued because of the large misdiagnosis rate of coeliac disease (CD), and because AGA ... Alzheimer’s and Brain Diseases In 2000, [http://www.omrf.org/OMRF/Research/08/TangJ.asp Jordan J.N. Tang, Ph.D.], and colleagues created an inhibitor that, in vitro, stopped the enzyme thought to cause Alzheimer’s disease. The biotechnology company [http://www.comentis.com CoMentis] has since built on that discovery to create ...
Immune mediated hemolytic anemia (direct Coombs test is positive) *Autoimmune hemolytic anemia **Warm antibody autoimmune hemolytic anemia ***Idiopathic ***Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) ***Evans’ syndrome (antiplatelet antibodies and hemolytic antibodies) **Cold antibody autoimmune hemolytic anemia ***Idiopathic cold hemagglutinin syndrome ***Infectious mononucleosis ...
In human disease, alterations in numbers of regulatory T cells – and in particular those that express Foxp3 – are found in a number of disease states. For example, patients with tumors have a local relative excess of Foxp3 positive ...
Diseases that feature eosinophilia: *Allergic disorders **Asthma **Hay fever **Drug allergies **Allergic skin diseases ***Pemphigus ***Dermatitis herpetiformis *Parasitic infections *Some forms of malignancy **Hodgkin’s lymphoma **Some forms of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma *Systemic autoimmune diseases (e.g. SLE) *Some forms of vasculitis (e.g. ...
Autoimmune liver disease is also known as autoimmune hepatitis, and it affects peoples of different ethnic groups. The clinical signs and symptoms and outcome can vary from person to person. Some patients will respond better than others to treatment by ...Page 1 of 11
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