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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
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PART ONE What Is an Autoimmune Disease?