Autoimmune Diseases

• Autoantibodies:
  A series of tables describing the frequency and interpretation of autoantibodies in different diseases
  • Antiphospholipid Antibodies
  • Autoimmune Cutaneous Disorders
  • Inflammatory Muscle Diseases
  • Systemic Sclerosis
  • Antinuclear Antibodies in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
• Type 1A Diabetes (Immune Mediated)
  An excellent overview of the immunologic mechanisms leading to diabetes
• Experimental autoimmune uveitis as a model of human uveitis
  An examination of one of the best characterized models of autoimmunity
• Autoimmune Blistering Diseases
  An overview of this clinically confusing set of disorders
• Celiac Consensus Conference
  Recommendations for evaluation and mangement
• Overview of gastrointestinal diseases
  
  Broad introduction to gastrointestinal diseases with a focus on immunologic mechanisms
• Periodic Fever Comparisons
  A comparison of the clinical features of the periodic fever syndrome
• Pediatric Rheumatology Online Journal
  • Pathogenic mechanisms in macrophage activation syndrome
    An overview of this feared manifestation on systemic juvenile arthritis
  • Systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis
    This excellent article describes one to the most perplexing of the rheumatologic conditions
  • Henoch-Schönlein Purpura in Children
    One of the more common autoimmune diseases of childhood explained by an expert in the field
  • Rheumatic Fever
    Still an instructive lesson in infection triggered autoimmunity
  • What to do with a Positive ANA
    A wonderfully practical overview of this often mis-used test
  • Fever: A Pediatric Rheumatologist's Perspective
    A very comprehensive differential diagnosis
  • Lyme Disease in Children and Adolescents
    A clinical review of the misunderstood disease

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