Polyautoimmunity in a young woman.

doi:10.1093/rheumatology/32.3.254

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Polyautoimmunity in a young woman.

British journal of rheumatology - 1 Mar 1993

Sheehan N J, Stanton-King K

Abstract excerpt

A young woman with the HLA phenotype A1, A2, B5, B8, DR3, DR4 developed RA, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), pernicious anaemia (PA), Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT), systemic sclerosis (SS), pancreatic exocrine insufficiency (PEI) and coeliac disease (CD) before dying from vasculitic comp...

Topics

Adult
Anemia, Pernicious
Arthritis, Rheumatoid
Autoimmune Diseases
Autoimmunity
Celiac Disease
Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency
Female
HLA Antigens
Humans
Incidence
Phenotype
Purpura, Thrombocytopenic, Idiopathic
Scleroderma, Systemic
Thyroiditis, Autoimmune
Vasculitis

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