Translational Autoimmunity

Autoimmune Diseases in Different Organs

Nima Rezaei
Elsevier
458 pages
ISBN: 9780128244661
May 2022

This book addresses the spectrum of autoimmune diseases. The fourth volume of Translational Immunology Series, it focuses on clinical and laboratory details of autoimmune diseases which are broadly categorized into two types of organ-specific autoimmune diseases and non-organ specific autoimmune diseases (also known as systemic autoimmune diseases). Discussed are autoimmune rheumatic diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune rheumatic diseases such as diabetes mellitus and thyroid diseases, autoimmune neurologic diseases such as multiple sclerosis, as well as autoimmune hepatobiliary diseases, autoimmune renal diseases and autoimmune cutaneous diseases.