ANCA-Associated Vasculitic Neuropathy: A Case Report by M. Jakiševaitė, I. Navickaitė, G. Žemgulytė

“… Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA)-associated vasculitides (AAVs) are a group of autoimmune diseases that can affect many vital organs and tissues, as well as the nervous system. …”
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Familial Pemphigus Vulgaris Occured in a Father and Son as the First Confirmed Cases by Ali Haydar Eskiocak, Birgul Ozkesici, Soner Uzun

“…Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is a chronic autoimmune bullous disease of the skin and mucous membranes. …”
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Forward programming of hPSCs to neutrophils using chemically defined media by Hayley E. Hall, Xiaoping Bao, Cheng Dong, Xiaojun Lance Lian

“…In recent years, PMNs have gained increasing recognition for their significant involvement in the pathogenesis of a wide array of human diseases, including sepsis, pulmonary conditions, autoimmune disorders, and various cancers. Due to their terminally differentiated state, PMNs possess a short lifespan and exhibit limited proliferative potential, which makes continuous replenishment from the bone marrow essential for maintaining immune homeostasis. …”
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Antithyroid Antibodies and Thyroid Function in Pediatric Patients with Celiac Disease by Derya Kalyoncu, Nafiye Urganci

“…Aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of autoimmune thyroid disease, persistence of antithyroid antibodies, effect of gluten-free diet, and long-term outcome of thyroid function in pediatric patients with celiac disease (CD). …”
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A Case of Relapsing Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease by Talayeh Rezayat, Matthew B. Carroll, Bryan C. Ramsey, Andria Smith

“…The etiology of KFD is unknown but it is thought to be triggered by an autoimmune or viral process with an exaggerated T-cell-mediated immune response. …”
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Epidemic dropsy: A mimic of scleroderma? by Anupam Wakhlu, Rasmi Ranjan Sahoo

“…Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune connective tissue disease involving the skin and internal organs and characterized pathologically by microvascular damage and increased deposition of connective tissue. …”
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Life-Threatening Intrapulmonary Hemorrhage due to Vancomycin-Induced Thrombocytopenia: A Case Report by Haneen Abdalhadi, Yazan Fahmawi, Abhijin Das, Brian Fouty

“…Workup was negative for thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, disseminated intravascular coagulopathy, atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome, heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, and autoimmune diseases. All recently started medications were discontinued, and the patient was started empirically on methylprednisolone and intravenous immunoglobulin. …”
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Promising Neutrophil-Associated Biomarkers in Lung Diseases of Patients with Antisynthetase Syndrome and Dermatomyositis by Lei Liu, Jundi Wang, Peiyu Zhang, Wenjia Sun, Xiuliang Zhu, Xiujuan Sun, Jing Xue, Huaxiang Wu

“…Antisynthetase syndrome (ASS) and dermatomyositis (DM) are serious autoimmune diseases, with lungs being the most frequently involved organ and sometimes fatal. …”
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Secukinumab-Induced Inflammatory Bowel Disease in a Patient Treated for Chronic Plaque Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis: A Case Report and Review of the Role of Novel Biologic Age... by K. M. Darch, T. L. Holland, L. J. Spelman

“…Chronic plaque psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis are common autoimmune inflammatory conditions, often existing as comorbidities that have a significant impact on a patient’s quality of life. …”
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Hsp70 and Its Molecular Role in Nervous System Diseases by Giuseppina Turturici, Gabriella Sconzo, Fabiana Geraci

“…Hsp70 functions as a chaperone and protects neurons from protein aggregation and toxicity (Parkinson disease, Alzheimer disease, polyglutamine diseases, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), protects cells from apoptosis (Parkinson disease), is a stress marker (temporal lobe epilepsy), protects cells from inflammation (cerebral ischemic injury), has an adjuvant role in antigen presentation and is involved in the immune response in autoimmune disease (multiple sclerosis). The worldwide incidence of neurodegenerative diseases is high. …”
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Self-Management in Daily Life with Psoriasis: An Integrative Review of Patient Needs for Structured Education by Gitte Susanne Rasmussen, Helle Terkildsen Maindal, Kirsten Lomborg

“…As psoriasis increasingly gains recognition as a serious chronic autoimmune skin disease with long-term impairment on the life course, and not mainly a cosmetic problem, nurses are highly challenged to develop efficient education to support patient self-management. …”
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Acute Kidney Injury, Recurrent Seizures, and Thrombocytopenia in a Young Patient with Lupus Nephritis: A Diagnostic Dilemma by Hector Alvarado Verduzco, Anjali Acharya

“…PRES has been associated with multiple conditions such as autoimmune disorders, pregnancy, organ transplant, and thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA). …”
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Performance of classification criteria for Behcet's disease in an Egyptian cohort by Mohamed Ahmed Hussein, Mona I Ellawindi, Gaafar Ragab

“…It included 256 patients classified as BD based on expert opinion and 205 patients with other autoimmune and/or autoinflammatory diseases with symptoms similar to BD. …”
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COVID-19-Induced Fatal Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura in a Healthy Young Patient by Mariana Codevila Buere Pereira, Bruna Ruschel, Bruna Schneider, Vitor Salomão Gonçalves Melo de Melgar, Tatiana Helena Rech

“…Since the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic began, findings indicate that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) might induce autoimmune disorders. Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a devastating disease if not emergently treated. …”
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Particularities and management of late-onset rheumatoid arthritis by Enrique Martínez González, Liena Perdomo Roselló, Reiny Lorena Rosquete Ávila

“…Introduction: rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease with articular and extra-articular involvement. …”
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Immunoglobulin G4 Sclerosing Cholangitis: An Unusual Cause of Obstructive Jaundice—Case Report and Literature Review by Pragya Shrestha, Brian Le, Brent Wagner, William Pompella, Paras Karmacharya

“…The presence of extra-biliary clinical manifestations of IgG4-RD, such as parotid and lacrimal swelling, lymphadenopathy, autoimmune pancreatitis, and retroperitoneal fibrosis, if present could provide important clues to diagnosis. …”
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Type III Mixed Cryoglobulinemia and Antiphospholipid Syndrome in a Patient With Partial DiGeorge Syndrome by Alice D. Chang, Raffi Tachdjian, Kerry Gallagher, Deborah K. McCurdy, Charles Lassman, E. Richard Stiehm, Ora Yadin

“…Infectious work-up revealed only positive anti-streptolysin O (ASO) and anti-DNAse B titers. Autoimmune studies showed strongly positive anti-platelet IgM, elevated rheumatoid factor (RF), and positive cryocrit. …”
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Prevalence of Splanchnic Vein Thrombosis in Pancreatitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies by Wenda Xu, Xingshun Qi, Jiang Chen, Chunping Su, Xiaozhong Guo

“…According to the causes of pancreatitis, the pooled prevalence of SVT was 12.2% and 14.6% in patients with hereditary and autoimmune pancreatitis. According to the location of SVT, the pooled prevalence of portal vein, splenic vein, and mesenteric vein thrombosis was 6.2%, 11.2%, and 2.7% in pancreatitis. …”
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High-Salt Enhances the Inflammatory Response by Retina Pigment Epithelium Cells following Lipopolysaccharide Stimulation by Dike Zhang, Chaokui Wang, Shuang Cao, Zi Ye, Bolin Deng, Aize Kijlstra, Peizeng Yang

“…High-salt has been shown to play a role in the pathogenesis of autoimmune disease. In this study, we investigated the effect of high-salt on the production of inflammatory mediators by ARPE-19 cells and the possible mechanisms involved. …”
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Are Onconeural Antibodies a Clinical Phenomenology in Paraneoplastic Limbic Encephalitis? by Hongliang Zhang, Chunkui Zhou, Limin Wu, Fengming Ni, Jie Zhu, Tao Jin

“…The finding of highly specific antibodies directed against onconeural antigens has revolutionized the diagnosis and promoted the understanding of these syndromes and led to the current hypothesis of an autoimmune pathophysiology. Accumulating data strongly suggested direct pathogenicity of these antibodies. …”
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