The Association of Other Autoimmune Diseases in Patients With Thyroid Autoimmunity

• Main Author: Alessandro Antonelli (auth)
• Other Authors: Salvatore Benvenga (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus; Vitiligo; Autoimmune Gastritis; Sarcoidosis; Sj; Systemic Sclerosis; Thyroid Autoimmunity
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITD) are T cell-mediated organ-specific autoimmune disorders resulting from an immune dysregulation leading to a thyroid immune attack (Antonelli and Benvenga). Graves' disease and Hashimoto's thyroiditis are the two main clinical presentations of AITD, and th...