Autoimmune diseases arise from an overactive response of the immune system against normal tissues or substances within the body. Essentially, the body attacks its own cells. Autoimmune diseases may be systemic, or organ and tissue specific.
Autoimmune Diseases
- Acute Disseminated Encephalomyeltis
- Addison’s Disease
- Alopecia Areata
- Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome (APS)
- Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia
- Autoimmune Hepatitis
- Bullous Pemphigoid
- Coeliac Disease
- Crohns Disease
- Dermatomyositis
- Endometriosis
- Goodpasture’s Disease
- Graves’ Disease
- Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
- Hashimoto’s Disease
- Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
- Lupus
- Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
- Myasthenia Gravis
- Narcolepsy
- Pemphigus Vulgaris
- Pernicious Anaemia
- Polymyositis
- Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Sjögren’s Syndrome
- Temporal Arteritis (Giant Cell Arteritis)
- Type 1 Diabetes
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Vasculitis
- Wegener’s Granulomatosis