autoimmune disease
Autoimmune disease is a condition where the body's immune system mistakenly attacks and damages its own healthy cells and tissues, leading to inflammation and dysfunction within various organs or systems of the body.
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- antiphospholipid syndrome
- autoimmune hepatitis
- celiac disease
- crohn's disease
- diabetes mellitus type 1
- goodpasture's syndrome
- graves' disease
- guillain-barré syndrome
- hashimoto's thyroiditis
- multiple sclerosis
- myasthenia gravis
- pernicious anemia
- polymyalgia rheumatica
- psoriasis
- rheumatoid arthritis
- sjögren's syndrome
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- type 1 diabetes
- ulcerative colitis
- wegener's granulomatosis
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