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Immuno
Diseases
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Multiple sclerosis | Central Nervous System (oligodendrocytes);Demyelination |
| Acute Idiopathic Polyneuritis (Guillian-Barre syndrome) | Peripheral nerves; Demyelination |
| Myasthenia gravis | Neuromuscular junciton,Acetylcholine receptor; Impaired transmission |
| Hashimotos thyroiditis | Thyroid (hypothyroidism);Anti-thyroglobulin, anti-thyroid epithelium |
| Grave's disease | Thyroid (hyperthyroidism); Anti-TSH receptor |
| Goodpasture's Syndrome | Basement membranes of renal glomeruli (and some pulmonary alveoli); Kidney/Respiratory failure |
| Addison's disease | Adrenal glands; Anti-adrenal cell membranes and lymphocyte/monocyte cortical infiltration |
| Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus | Pancreatic islets (beta cells); Beta cell destruction |
| Sjogren's Syndrome | Salivary glands; Glandular inflammation |
| Autoimmune hemolytic anemia | Erythrocytes; Erythrocyte destructino and anemia |
| Thrombocytopenias | Platelets or megakaryocytes; Platelet destruction/abnormal bleeding |
| Chronic atrophic gastritis; Pernicious anemia | Gastic mucosal; Loss of gastric secretory function, Failure of vitamin B12 absorption due to loss of intrinsic factor or intrinsic factor producing cells |
| Intestinal granulomatous disease (Crohn's) | Mucousal membrane of terminal ileum; Mucosal ulceration, obstructive granuloma |
| Rheumatic fever | Heart; Myocarditis, Scarring of heart valves |
| Pemphigus vulgaris | Epidermis; Blistering of the skin |
| Systemic lupus erythematosis | Variety of organs; Numerous specificities of autoreactivity-Acute immune complex disease prominent |
| Rheumatoid arthritis | Initially joints, spreading to cartilage bone and muscle; Immune complex disease in synovium, Anibodies (RF) against IgG prominent inflammatory T cells noted |