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WOMEN AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE The Mysterious Ways Your Body Betrays Itself MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS JUVENILE DIABETES LUPUS CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS SCLERODERMA VASCULITIS

★ FIBROMYALGIA ★ GRAVES’ DISEASE ★ RHEUMATIC FEVER ★ ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME ★ PANDAS ★ SJÖGREN’S SYNDROME ★ ALOPECIA

ROBERT G. LAHITA, M.D., Ph.D. WITH

INA YALOF

To George and Pauline

Contents

PART ONE What Is an Autoimmune Disease?

1

CHAPTER ONE THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

3

CHAPTER TWO AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES

18

PART TWO The Autoimmune Diseases

35

CHAPTER THREE THE ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME

37

CHAPTER FOUR IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA

51

CHAPTER FIVE TYPE 1 JUVENILE DIABETES

61

CHAPTER SIX MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

74

CHAPTER SEVEN PANDAS

88

CHAPTER EIGHT STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION AND RHEUMATIC FEVER

97

CHAPTER NINE VASCULITIS

105

CHAPTER TEN SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS

116

CHAPTER ELEVEN ALOPECIA UNIVERSALIS

132

CHAPTER TWELVE SJÖGREN’S SYNDROME

143

CHAPTER THIRTEEN AUTOIMMUNE THYROID DISEASE

155

CHAPTER FOURTEEN AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE OF THE LIVER

161

CHAPTER FIFTEEN SCLERODERMA

168

CHAPTER SIXTEEN POLYMYOSITIS AND DERMATOMYOSITIS

182

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

190

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN FIBROMYALGIA, CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME, AND SILICONE IMPLANT SYNDROME

203

PART THREE Treatments

213

CHAPTER NINETEEN DRUGS AND OTHER THERAPIES

215

CHAPTER TWENTY ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES

236

GLOSSARY

257

SUGGESTED READING

267

HELPFUL ORGANIZATIONS

273

INDEX

275

ABOUT THE AUTHORS OTHER BOOKS BY ROBERT G. LAHITA, M.D., PH.D. CREDITS COVER COPYRIGHT ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

PART ONE What Is an Autoimmune Disease?