Cytokines in Thyroid-Associated Ophthalmopathy by Pengbo Zhang, Huang Zhu

“…Thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO), also known as thyroid eye disease (TED) or Graves’ orbitopathy (GO), is a complex autoimmune condition causing visual impairment, disfigurement, and harm to patients’ physical and mental health. …”
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A rare case of congenital vitiligo in a neonate with a review of literature by Debasmita Behera, Farheen Begum, Chinmoy Raj, Garima Manocha

“…Our case in point contributes to the limited pool of studies on congenital vitiligo (nine cases reported till date) and lends credibility to the theory that, in genetically vulnerable individuals, the autoimmune process may begin in utero.…”
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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE): A review on the prevalence, clinical manifestation, and disease assessment by Malarvili Selvaraja, Maha Abdullah, Anim Md Shah, Masita Arip, Syafinaz Amin Nordin

“… Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease with a varying clinical phenotype. …”
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Fecal microbiota transplantation: an update on the advances in the treatment of complex diseases by Carlotta Magrì, Giuliana Calabrese, Letizia Masi, Sara Troisi, Federica di Vincenzo, Pierluigi Puca, Cristina Graziani, Loris R. Lopetuso, Valentina Petito

“…This review aims to discuss the many promising applications of FMT in intestinal diseases such as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and extraintestinal diseases such as neuropsychiatric disorders, metabolic syndrome, and autoimmune diseases. For each disease group, preclinical data will be presented in addition to clinical trial evidence.…”
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Drug-Induced Lupus with Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis Associated with Apixaban by John Yang, Steffi Lena, Daniel Tarditi, Gopika Banker

“…Drug-induced lupus is an iatrogenic-induced autoimmune disease with common offending agents well documented in the literature. …”
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18F-FDG PET/CT findings of erythema induratum by KyungAh Chun, MD, PhD

“…18F-FDG (fluorodeoxyglucose) accumulates in malignant tissues but also at the sites of infection and inflammation and in autoimmune and granulomatous diseases by the overexpression of distinct facultative glucose transporter (GLUT) isotypes (mainly GLUT-1 and GLUT-3) in cancer cells and inflammatory cells.A 75-year-old female with a history of skin rash with tenderness for 1 month underwent 18F-FDG positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) to determine the presence of an underlying disease including malignant tumor. …”
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A unique coexistence of a plurihormonal pituitary adenoma with granulomatous hypophysitis by Sanjiban Patra, Priti Trivedi

“…Among the primary hypophysitis, primary granulomatous subtype has been proposed to be idiopathic and autoimmune in nature. Plurihormonal pituitary adenomas produce hormones of more than one different pituitary cell lineage. …”
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New Insights into Artesunate as a Pleiotropic Regulator of Innate and Adaptive Immune Cells by Lixian Lin, Zengqi Tang, Zhenrui Shi, Qing Guo, Hui Xiong

“…Although it shows promising application in many diseases, such as inflammatory diseases, hypersensitivity, autoimmune diseases, and cancers, little is known about underlying molecular. …”
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Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody Vasculitis after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting by Dwight D. Harris, Sharif A. Sabe, Afshin Ehsan

“…Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis is a group of rare autoimmune disorders associated with the presence of ANCA autoantibodies. …”
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Keeping an Eye on Crohn’s Disease: Orbital Myositis as the Presenting Symptom by Carol A Durno, Robert Ehrlich, Robert Taylor, J Raymond Buncic, Peter Hughes, Anne Marie Griffiths

“…Episodic periorbital swelling due to presumed orbital inflammation and myositis caused intermittent apparent proptosis and was the presenting symptom of ileocecal Crohn's disease (CD) in a teenage female with a family history of autoimmune disorders and CD. Orbital myositis, a very rare extraintestinal manifestation of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), likely represents a process of impaired immunoregulation related to the underlying intestinal inflammation. …”
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miRNAs Participate in MS Pathological Processes and Its Therapeutic Response by Ting Wu, Guangjie Chen

“…Multiple sclerosis is the most common autoimmune disease of the central nervous system. It is believed that the increased migration of autoreactive lymphocytes across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) may be responsible for axonal demyelination of neurons. …”
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Characteristics of Sjögren’s syndrome associated with rheumatoid arthritis by Xavier Mariette, Raphaele Seror, Gaetane Nocturne, Nolan Hassold

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Alveolar Hemorrhage, a Rare and Life-Threatening Complication of Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome by Grace Loza, Carlos Hallo, Byron Chiliquinga, Alejandro Hallo

“…This life-threatening complication results from autoimmune damage to the alveolar blood vessels. Given the limited literature addressing the association of these two pathologies, we report a series of three cases with this complication and then compare our findings with 6 cases reported in the literature.…”
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Interstitial Nephritis in a Patient with Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Payaswini Vasanth, Michelle Parmley, Jose Torrealba, Tamim Hamdi

“…Various aspects of this theory have been challenged with a potential role for the underlying autoimmune disorder. Steroids are the mainstay of treatment and mycophenolate mofetil might be an effective alternative. …”
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Drug-induced lupus by Kavadichanda Chengappa G

“…Various pathophysiologic mechanisms such as decreased central tolerance, molecular cross-reactivity, and epigenetic modifications of immune cells are known to play a role in the precipitation of drug-induced autoimmunity. Early recognition and prompt withdrawal of the offending agent is often sufficient to treat these autoimmune manifestations. …”
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Invasive Group B Streptococcal Disease in Two Pediatric Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Dongning Wu, Kenneth Bromberg, Roberto Jodorkovsky

“…Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease associated with high morbidity and mortality, often caused by infection. …”
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Biopsychosocial Model Analysis of a Recurrent Guillain–Barré Syndrome Patient’s Recovery by Prashant P. Naik, Rutuja A. Phadke, Amogh R. Kulkarni, Vishagh K. Nair

“…Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) is an autoimmune disease that generally follows a monophasic course and typically does not recur. …”
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Circulating (CD3−CD19+CD20−IgD−CD27highCD38high) Plasmablasts: A Promising Cellular Biomarker for Immune Activity for Anti-PLA2R1 Related Membranous Nephropathy? by Agnieszka Pozdzik, Ingrid Beukinga, Chunyan Gu-Trantien, Karen Willard-Gallo, Joëlle Nortier, Olivier Pradier

“…Membranous nephropathy (MN) is a kidney specific autoimmune disease mainly mediated by anti-phospholipase A2 receptor 1 autoantibody (PLA2R1 Ab). …”
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NOD-like receptor family pyrin domain containing 3 (rs10754558) gene polymorphism in chronic spontaneous urticaria: A pilot case-control study by Aya El Gendy, Fawzia Hassan Abo Ali, Shereen A. Baioumy, Sara I. Taha, Mahy El -Bassiouny, Osama M. Abdel Latif

“…It may also be associated with ASST positivity which suggests a connection between the C-allele and the autoimmune notion of CSU.…”
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Blood Genomics Identifies Three Subtypes of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: “IFN-High,” “NE-High,” and “Mixed” by Mintian Cui, Taotao Li, Xinwei Yan, Chao Wang, Qi Shen, Hongbiao Ren, Liangshuang Li, Ruijie Zhang

“…Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic and multifactorial autoimmune disease, and its diverse clinical manifestations affect molecular diagnosis and drug benefits. …”
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