Autoimmune Polyendocrine Syndrome - Other Diseases

Other Diseases

Other diseases featuring polycrine autoimmunity:

  • Chromosomal abnormalities (Down's syndrome) increase the risk of endocrine autoimmunity
  • POEMS syndrome - the E is for endocrinopathy; the cause is a paraprotein excreted by a plasmacytoma or multiple myeloma; other features are polyneuropathy, organomegaly (hepatomegaly and splenomegaly), M-protein (paraprotein) and skin changes.
  • Several very rare diseases.

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