We report a 36-year-old female with longstanding oily diarrhea and new-onset dysphagia that was diagnosed as celiac disease and esophagus adenocarcinoma. Celiac is a multisystemic autoimmune disease associated with a longstanding inflammatory process, especially in the gastrointestinal tract. This chronic...
Even if GERD is caused by an autoimmune process as this study suggests, the initial trigger seems to be acid inappropriately moving from the stomach to the esophagus. But that does not mean GERD & NERD are caused by too much stomach acid, as the common dogma holds. In anearlier seriesof ...
Lesions in the area of the arcuate fasciculus may cause a major syndrome of aphasia (an acquired language disorder caused by brain damage) called conduction aphasia. There are also indirect AF fiber connections between Broca’s area and the parietal lobe as well as connecting the parietal lobe ...
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Certain germinal mutations of MEN1, which encodes MENIN, cause multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (ref. 15), which is an autosomal-dominant syndrome characterized by concurrent parathyroid adenomas, gastroenteropancreatic tumours and several other tumour types. Menin does not share significant amino-...
Acquired von Willebrand syndrome associated with Hashimoto's thyroiditis and subcutaneous mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma. Intern Med 2013; 52(23):2661-2663. From autoimmune thyroid disease and CREST syndrome to incidental discovery of incipient gastric carcinoma: a case report ...
Foxp3 plays an essential role in the suppressive function of Tregs, and Foxp3 deficiency causes a multi-organ autoimmune disease, which can be observed in the scurfy mouse and in patients with immunodysregulation polyendocrinopathy enteropathy X-linked syndrome (IPEX) [1,...
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