Dysimmune diseases

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• IgG4-associated disease
  19 November 2003

  hyper-IgG4 disease, IMAD, IgG4 syndrome, IgG4 disease, IgG4-associated multifocal systemic fibrosclerosis, IgG4-associated immune complex multiorgan autoimmune disease, IgG4-related plasmacytic disease, hyper-IgG4 disease, multifocal systemic fibrosclerosis (MSF), systemic multifocal fibrosclerosis, inflammatory fibrotic disease, IgG4-Related Disease; IgG4-assotiated diseases; IgG4-related disease
  Definition: The IMAD or ’hyper-IgG4 disease’ is a chronic inflammatory disease, characterized (...)

• Hashimoto thyroiditis
  12 January 2006

  Hashimoto’s thyroiditis; Struma lymphomatosa (lymphocytic thyroiditis); chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, Hashimoto thyroiditis, thyroid autoimmunity
  Definition: Hashimoto thyroiditis (or chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis) is the most common cause of hypothyroidism in areas of the world where iodine levels are sufficient. It is characterized by gradual thyroid failure because of autoimmune destruction of the thyroid gland.
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  Cytology FNA : (...)

• rheumatoid arthritis
  6 October 2003

  rheumatoid polyarthritis

• dermatitis herpetiformis
  29 June 2004

  herpetiform dermatitis PO
  Definition: Dermatitis herpetiformis is characterized by papules, vesicles, and occasional bullae on an erythematous, often urticarial base.
  Dermatitis herpetiformis is associated with gluten-sensitive enteropathy. It causes small pruritic vesicles.
  Histologically it shows papillary neutrophilic microabscesses and a mixed dermal inflammatory infiltrate. DIF shows a granular pattern of IgA in the dermal papillae.
  Digital cases
  UI:924 - Dermatitis (...)

• type 1 diabetes
  25 September 2003

  type I diabetes

• Buerger disease
  24 July 2007

  Buerger arteritis

• hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
  22 February 2005

  FHLs, HPLH, HLH, familial erythrophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytoses
  Definition: Familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHL) is a rare, fatal disorder of early infancy.
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  hepatic erythrophagocytosis in hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
  https://twitter.com/GIPathologyURMC/status/889533077118214144
  See also
  erythrophagocytosis
  hepatic erythrophagocytosis
  Hemophagocytic (...)

• IgG4-associated sclerosing disease
  22 November 2009

  IgG4-related sclerosing disease

• systemic sclerosis
  28 November 2009

  scleroderma

• IPEX syndrome
  12 November 2003

  Definition: IPEX is a X-inked fatal disorder characterized by immune dysregulation, polyendocrinopathy, enteropathy and X-linked inheritance (MIM.304930).
  Patients typically present in infancy with severe diarrhea and failure to thrive. Most children die by 1 year of age without therapy. The diagnosis is established by genetic analysis, which often takes several weeks to complete and can sometimes delay crucial immunosuppressive treatment.
  Synopsis
  dysimmune enteropathy (autoimmune (...)

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