In contrast to generalized MG, purely ocular MG occurs equally among females and males, has a higher incidence in persons of Korean descent, and is likely associated with thyroid disease, thymomas (15% incidence), and other autoimmune diseases (i.e. scleroderma, systemic ...Scleroderma rheumatoid arthritis
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* Osteosarcoma. * Multiple myeloma. * Rheumatoid arthritis. * Lyme disease. * Bone metastasis. * Osteomyelitis. * Reactive arthritis. * Rheumatic fever. * Gout. * Acute lymphocytic leukemia. * Systemic lupus erythematosus. * Kawasaki disease. * Scleroderma. * Polyarteritis nodosa. ...
Low dose methotrexate is used to treat a wide variety of non-cancerous diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, scleroderma, psoriasis, asthma, sarcoidosis, primary biliary cirrhosis, polymyositis, and inflammatory bowel disease. Adapted from the Wikipedia article Antifolate, under the G....
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In contrast to generalized MG, purely ocular MG occurs equally among females and males, has a higher incidence in persons of Korean descent, and is likely associated with thyroid disease, thymomas (15% incidence), and other autoimmune diseases (i.e. scleroderma, systemic ... List of autoimmune disorders *Lupus *Scleroderma *Certain types of hemolytic anemia *Vasculitis *Type one diabetes *Graves disease *Rheumatoid arthritis *Multiple sclerosis *Goodpasture’s syndrome *Pernicious anemia *Some types of myopathyAdapted from the Wikipedia article Immune disorder, under the G. N. U. ...
The cause of the scarring in UIP may be known or unknown. The latter situation is more common. Since the medical term for conditions of unknown cause is “idiopathic”, the clinical term for UIP of unknown cause is idiopathic pulmonary ...
* Osteosarcoma * Multiple myeloma * Rheumatoid arthritis * Lyme disease * Bone metastasis * Osteomyelitis * Reactive arthritis * Rheumatic fever * Gout * Acute lymphocytic leukemia * Systemic lupus erythematosus * Kawasaki disease * Scleroderma * Polyarteritis nodosa ...
Low dose methotrexate is used to treat a wide variety of non-cancerous diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, scleroderma, psoriasis, asthma, sarcoidosis, primary biliary cirrhosis, polymyositis, and inflammatory bowel disease. Adapted from the Wikipedia article Antifolate, under the G. N. ...
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a type of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia (IIP), which in turn is a type of ”interstitial lung disease”. Other forms of “idiopathic interstitial pneumonias” include non-specific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP), desquamative interstitial pneumonia (DIP) and acute interstitial pneumonia ...
These are also referred to as systemic autoimmune diseases. The autoimmune CTDs may have both genetic and environmental causes. Genetic factors may create a predisposition towards developing these autoimmune diseases. They are characterized as a group by the presence of ...
Examples of systemic autoimmune diseases include: *Systemic lupus erythematosus (or SLE, or lupus), *Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), *Scleroderma, and systemic sclerosis (or systemic scleroderma), *Dermatomyositis (DM), and Sjögren’s syndrome. In contrast to systemic autoimmune diseases, organ-specific or tissue-specific autoimmune diseases such ...
* Physical eye trauma Inflammatory and Autoimmune Disorders: * Ankylosing Spondylitis and other HLA-B27 related disorders * Iridocyclitis, and other forms of uveal tract inflammation. * Rheumatoid arthritis * Behcet’s disease * Crohn’s disease * Lupus * Reactive arthritis * ...
Penicillamine is used as a form of immunosuppression to treat rheumatoid arthritis. It works by reducing numbers of T-lymphocytes, inhibiting macrophage function, decreasing IL-1, decreasing rheumatoid factor, and preventing collagen from cross-linking. It is used as a chelating agent: * ...
MCTD combines features of scleroderma, myositis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and rheumatoid arthritis (with some sources adding polymyositis, dermatomyositis, and inclusion body myositis) and is thus considered an overlap syndrome. MCTD commonly causes: *joint pain/swelling, *malaise, *Raynaud phenomenon, *Sjögren’s syndrome, *muscle ...
While many practitioners maintain that leaky gut syndrome is a bona fide medical condition, the area of “gut problems” lies between conventional and alternative medicine, and includes other diagnoses such as small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndrome or ”small intestine bacterial ...Page 1 of 11
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