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Autoimmune disorders    See images

Overview | Symptoms | Treatment | Prevention

Symptoms

Symptoms of autoimmune disease vary widely depending on the type of disease. A group of very non-specific symptoms often accompany autoimmune diseases especially of the collagen vascular type and include:

Specific autoimmune disease results in:
  • destruction of an organ or tissue resulting in decreased functioning of an organ or tissue (for example, the islet cells of the pancreas are destroyed in diabetes)
  • increase in size of an organ or tissue (for example, thyroid enlargement in Graves disease)
Note: Symptoms vary with the specific disorder and the organ or tissue affected.

Signs and Tests

Signs vary according to the specific disorder. This disease may also alter the results of the following tests:

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