Examples of Autoimmune Diseases: (listed by the Main Target Organs) |
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Nervous Systems: | Gastrointestinal System: | ||
Multiple sclerosis | Crohn's Disease | ||
Myasthenia gravis | Ulcerative colitis | ||
Autoimmune neuropathies | Primary biliary cirrhosis | ||
such as Guillain-Barré | Autoimmune hepatitis | ||
Autoimmune ureitis | |||
Endocrine Glands: | |||
Blood: | Type 1 or immune mediated | ||
Autoimmune hemolytic anemia | diabetes mellitus | ||
Pernicious anemia | Grave's Disease | ||
Autoimmune thrombocytopenia | Hashimoto's thyroiditis | ||
Autoimmune oophoritis and | |||
Blood Vessels: | orchitis | ||
Temporal artertis | Autoimmune disease of the | ||
Anti-phospholipid syndrome | adrenal gland | ||
Vasculitides such as | |||
Wegener's granulomatosis | Multiple Organs Including the | ||
Behcet's disease | Musculoskeletal Systems:* | ||
Rheumatoid arthritis | |||
Skin: | Systemic lupus erythematosus | ||
Psoriasis | Scleroderma | ||
Dermatitis herpetiformis | Polymyositis, dermatomyositis | ||
Pemphigus vulgaris | Spondyloarthropathies such as | ||
Vitiligo | ankylosing spondylitis | ||
Sjogren's syndrome | |||
*These diseases are also called connective tissue (muscle, skeleton, tendons, fascia, etc.) diseases. |