Information about autoimmunity and autoimmune related diseases. The American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association. Take our autoimmunity survey ...

Offers disease overview and information on causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, patient education, suggested reading and other resources.

Healthcare professionals and scientists have carefully prepared this ALtruis Biomedical Network-affiliated site, intended for informational purposes only. Partners: Pemphigus vulgaris | Pemphigus foliaceus | Paraneoplastic pemphigus Pemphigus Pemphigus describes a blistering condition of the skin caused by the attack of antibodies of certain proteins on the surface of skin cells. This attack ...

National Adrenal Diseases Foundation Background: The National Addison's Disease Foundation was formed in 1985 by a young couple as a result of their experiences with Addison's disease. At that time, there was no organization established which would provide guidance and information about what life was like with adrenal insufficiency. There was no way to contact others who shared this illness.

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Pemphigus I am not fighting Pemphigus. I am not battling Pemphigus. Pemphigus is not an invader. It is my own immune system that has become so confused that it is attacking my skin and mucus membranes as if they were invaders. To say I am fighting Pemphigus makes no sense, for that would mean that I am fighting myself. I seek to make peace with myself. To understand why my immune system has ...

The New Zealand Addison's Network (NZAN) has been formed to provide members with sound information to help achieve the best quality of life.

APS is an autoimmune disease associated with thrombosis and pregnancy complications. Treatment with heparin and aspirin will improve the outcome.

Information, treatment, and interaction of Addison's Diseases and type I diabetes, known as Schmidt's Syndrome or Polyglandular Autoimmune Syndrome.

Autoimmune hepatitis is a condition in which the patient's own immune systems attacks the liver causing inflammation and liver cell death.

This is a support forum where patients, their families, people in the medical profession, etc. can openly exchange experiences and information about the medical condition, dermatitis herpetiformis (DH). Includes useful DH links.

Health guide on underactive adrenal glands, also known as, addison's disease. Causes, diagnosis and treatments are presented ...

Antiphospholipid Syndrome: A review giving most importance on its clinical features, diagnosis and management.

APECED syndrome is a very rare genetic syndrome involving the autoimmune system. It is a combination of several distinct disorders.

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My family and me! If you've found this page you probably already know what relapsing polychondritis (RP) is. (If you don't know, you can read an article by Dr. Trentham, one of the foremost authorities on the subject, at http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/RLR1999/DRTrentham.htm. If you or someone you know suffers from a different autoimmune disease, read on: what helped me might also help others with ...

The Antiphospholipid Syndrome Vol.1 No.4 back | home | register by Sara Marder, M.D. Instructor and Fellow in Maternal and Fetal Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Yale University School of Medicine Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome There are many causes that have been linked to recurrent pregnancy loss. One of the less frequently seen associations is known as the antiphospholipid ...

The Polyarteritis Nodosa (PAN) Support Site People seeking support for PAN and other autoimmune illnesses Our Story Ed and Florence Becker in 1997 By y all odds, my Mom should have never contracted the autoimmune illness, Polyarteritis Nodosa (PAN). Only 1 in 100, 000 persons contracts PAN and they are usually men. However, my Mom did contract PAN early in the summer of 1998. Since May she had ...

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This immunofluorescence micrograph shows positivity with antibody to IgG has a smooth, diffuse, linear pattern that is characteristic for glomerular basement membrane antibody with Goodpasture's syndrome.

This immunofluorescence micrograph demonstrates positivity with antibody to IgA.

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Image of membranous glomerulonephritis taken by an electron microscope.

Image of membranous glomerulonephritis under immunofluorescence

Image of membranous glomerulonephritis through a light microscope

Image of embranous glomerulonephritis, silver stain

Resource file on Cutaneous Systemic Lupus Erythmatosus

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases press release dated February 26, 1999. This solicitation requests proposals for development and implementation of clinical trials utilizing hematopoietic stem cells for the treatment of autoimmune disease.

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This site is an illustration of discoid lupus erythematosus.

Lupus patients often have a concurrent fibromyalgia syndrome. Wallace reported a 22% prevalence in 464 lupus patients, Middleton reported a 22% prevalence of fibromyalgia meeting the ACR criteria with another 23% having probable fibromyalgia, and Morand reported a 25% prevalence of fibromyalgia in a cohort of 87 lupus patients

This site is an illustration of discoid lupus erythematosus.

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A group of scientists from the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation report today in the The Journal of Clinical Investigation that systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus) may be caused by a common virus.