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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
 
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 CHAPTER SIXTEEN POLYMYOSITIS AND DERMATOMYOSITIS
 
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 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
 
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 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
 
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 PART ONE What Is an Autoimmune Disease?