CD4 T lymphocyte autophagy is upregulated in the salivary glands of primary Sjögren’s syndrome patients and correlates with focus score and disease activity [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) is a common chronic autoimmune disease characterized by lymphocytic infiltration of exocrine glands and peripheral lymphocyte perturbation.
A Bhattacharya +58 more
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Nonsystemic vasculitic neuropathy
Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, 2020 A 21-year-old female born of nonconsanguineous marriage presented with gradually progressive quadriplegia for 3 years. Weakness was distal more than proximal, with wasting. She also had moderate pain in extremities.
Shalesh Rohatgi +2 more
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Immune myopathies with perimysial pathology: Clinical and laboratory features [PDF]
, 2018 ObjectiveImmune myopathies with perimysial pathology (IMPP) have a combination of damage to perimysial connective tissue and muscle fiber necrosis, more prominent near the perimysium.
Bucelli, Robert C, Pestronk, Alan
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Antinuclear Antibodies: A demographic profile from a Tertiary Healthcare Centre of Delhi
SVU - International Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023 Background: Anti-nuclear autoantibodies (ANA), have explicitly been linked to immune complex-mediated autoimmune diseases. Detection and quantitation of autoantibodies are therefore crucial in the diagnosis and treatment.
Krishna Sarkar +3 more
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A 50 year old with a rapid neuropsychiatric deterioration and choreaform movements [PDF]
, 2017 A 50-year-old man presented acutely to the hospital with behavioural disturbance, choreiform movements and profound nihilistic delusions. He reported recent drug and alcohol abuse, and also apparent involvement in several recent criminal activities, for ...
Campbell, Stewart +3 more
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Intracellular and circulating neuronal antinuclear antibodies in human epilepsy
Neurobiology of Disease, 2013 There are overwhelming data supporting the inflammatory origin of some epilepsies (e.g., Rasmussen's encephalitis and limbic encephalitis). Inflammatory epilepsies with an autoimmune component are characterized by autoantibodies against membrane-bound ...
Philip H. Iffland, II +8 more
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Brazilian Journal of Nephrology, 2020 Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs) are associated with small vessel vasculitis but their prevalence is not rare in other immune diseases.
Joana Eugénio Santos +6 more
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Turkish Journal of Hematology, 2022 Objective: Eltrombopag remains a prominent option in the treatment of steroid-dependent or steroid-refractory immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) patients. Unfortunately, not all patients respond to eltrombopag.
Mehmet Baysal +4 more
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Eosinophilic fasciitis (Shulman's disease): review and comparative evaluation of seven patients. [PDF]
, 2019 OBJECTIVES: Eosinophilic fasciitis (EF) was described in 1974 by Shulman as a rare fibrosing connective tissue disease of unknown etiology. An undetermined trigger is thought to lead to the degranulation of eosinophils that interact with fibroblasts and
Cimbron, M +3 more
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Complement Activation in Patients With Probable Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Ability to Predict Progression to American College of Rheumatology-Classified Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. [PDF]
, 2020 ObjectiveTo evaluate the frequency of cell-bound complement activation products (CB-CAPs) as a marker of complement activation in patients with suspected systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and the usefulness of this biomarker as a predictor of the ...
Alexander, Roberta Vezza +12 more
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