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A-Z Autoimmune Disease List

This A-Z list and basic information about each recognized or suspected autoimmune disease were compiled and written by our dedicated research team at the Global Autoimmune Institute. The list provides a starting point in learning about confirmed and suspected autoimmune diseases, with links to other sources that we believe to be accurate and informative. This section is continuously updated.

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Acquired hemophilia
Acromegaly
Acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis (Hurst’s disease)
Agammaglobulinemia
Alopecia areata
Amyloidosis
Ankylosing spondylitis
Anti-GBM disease (Goodpasture’s syndrome)
Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
Antiphospholipid syndrome
Aplastic anemia
Arteriosclerosis
Autoimmune Addison’s disease
Autoimmune angioedema
Autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy
Autoimmune encephalitis (acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, ADEM)
Autoimmune gastritis
Autoimmune hemolytic anemia
Autoimmune hepatitis
Autoimmune hyperlipidemia
Autoimmune hypophysitis (lymphocytic hypophysitis)
Autoimmune inner ear disease
Autoimmune interstitial lung disease
Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome
Autoimmune myelofibrosis
Autoimmune myocarditis
Autoimmune oophoritis
Autoimmune orchitis (testicular autoimmunity)
Autoimmune pancreatitis
Autoimmune polyglandular syndromes
Autoimmune progesterone dermatitis
Autoimmune retinopathy
Autoimmune sudden sensorineural hearing loss
Baló disease (concentric sclerosis)
Behçet’s disease
Birdshot chorioretinopathy
Bullous pemphigoid
Castleman disease
Celiac disease
Chagas disease
Chronic autoimmune urticaria
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
Cogan’s syndrome
Cold agglutinin disease
CREST syndrome (limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis)
Crohn’s disease
Cronkhite-Canada syndrome
Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia
Dermatitis herpetiformis
Dermatomyositis
Discoid lupus
Dressler’s syndrome
Eczema (atopic dermatitis)
Endometriosis
Eosinophilic esophagitis (eosinophilic gastroenteritis)
Eosinophilic fasciitis
Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA, Churg-Strauss syndrome)
Erythema nodosum
Essential mixed cryoglobulinemia
Evans syndrome
Fibromyalgia
Giant cell arteritis (temporal arteritis, Horton’s disease)
Giant cell myocarditis
Glomerulonephritis
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA, Wegener’s granulomatosis)
Graves’ disease
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS)
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (autoimmune thyroiditis)
Henoch-Schonlein purpura
Hidradenitis suppurativa
Hypogammaglobulinemia
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF, fibrosing alveolitis)
IgA nephropathy
IgG4-related sclerosing disease
Immune thrombocytopenia (autoimmune thrombocytopenia purpura)
Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy
Inclusion body myositis
Interstitial cystitis
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (Adult-onset Still’s disease)
Juvenile myositis
Kawasaki disease
Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome
Leukocytoclastic vasculitis
Lichen planus
Lichen sclerosus
Linear IgA disease
Lupus nephritis
Lyme disease
Ménière’s disease
Microscopic polyangiitis (MPA)
Mixed connective tissue disease
Mucous membrane pemphigoid (Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid)
Multiple sclerosis
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)
Myasthenia gravis
Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody disease (MOGAD)
Narcolepsy
Neuromyelitis optica (NMO, Devic’s disease)
Optic neuritis
Palindromic rheumatism
Palmoplantar pustulosis
Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration
Paraneoplastic pemphigus
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
Parry-Romberg syndrome (progressive hemifacial atrophy)
Parsonage-Turner syndrome
Pemphigoid gestationis (herpes gestationis)
Pemphigus foliaceus
Pemphigus vulgaris
Pernicious anemia
Pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta (PLEVA, Mucha-Habermann disease)
POEMS syndrome
Polyarteritis nodosa
Polymyalgia rheumatica
Polymyositis
Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS)
Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC)
Primary sclerosing cholangitis
Psoriasis
Psoriatic arthritis
Pure red cell aplasia
Pyoderma gangrenosum
Raynaud’s
Reactive arthritis
Relapsing polychondritis
Rheumatic fever
Rheumatoid arthritis
Sarcoidosis
Schmidt syndrome
Scleritis
Sjögren disease (SjD)
Small fiber sensory neuropathy
Sydenham’s chorea
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)
Takayasu arteritis
Thyroid eye disease (Graves’ ophthalmopathy, thyroid-associated orbitopathy)
Transverse myelitis
Type 1 diabetes (T1D)
Ulcerative colitis
Undifferentiated connective tissue disease
Vitiligo

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