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This is a list of autoimmune diseases, comorbidities, and syndromes as compiled by ARI.  To appear on this list, we check scientific medical sources at the National Library of Medicine (also known as "PubMed").  If a disease has no known cause and is suspected of being autoimmune, we include it because we need more research to determine whether it is, or is not, an autoimmune disease. We update the list regularly based on feedback we get from citizen scientists like you and our own research.

NOTE: The information provided here intended to facilitate and encourage, not replace, direct patient-health professional relationships.

Almost every autoimmune disease has more than one name. In some cases, the name is a simple synonym or abbreviation (“lupus” for systemic lupus erythematosus). In some, the alternative name is actually a subtype. A subtype is a more specific clinical definition of the main disease. These specific definitions can be used to identify patients that may be good candidates for specific treatments. For example, “Steroid responsive encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroiditis (SREAT)” is diagnosed when a patient with Hashimoto’s encephalopathy responds well to steroids. The disease subtype is therefore clinically relevant to patients, but the information in the disease profile is still substantially accurate.

If you think we're missing a disease, or if you think there is a disease listed that does not belong here, please contact us!

A

Acquired hemophilia
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
Acute motor axonal neuropathy
Addison's disease
Adult-onset Still's disease
Alopecia areata
Ankylosing spondylitis
Anti-glomerular basement membrane nephritis
Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis
Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis
Anti-sperm antibodies
Antiphospholipid syndrome
Antisynthetase syndrome
Aplastic anemia
Autoimmune angioedema
Autoimmune encephalitis
Autoimmune enteropathy
Autoimmune gastritis
Autoimmune hemophilia
Autoimmune hepatitis
Autoimmune inner ear disease
Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome
Autoimmune neutropenia
Autoimmune oophoritis
Autoimmune orchitis
Autoimmune pancreatitis
Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1
Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 2
Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 3
Autoimmune progesterone dermatitis
Autoimmune retinopathy
Autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura
Autoimmune thyroiditis
Autoimmune urticaria
Autoimmune uveitis

B

Balo concentric sclerosis
Behçet's disease
Bickerstaff's encephalitis
Brachial neuropathy
Bullous pemphigoid

C

Celiac disease
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
Churg-Strauss syndrome
Cicatricial pemphigoid
Cogan syndrome
Cold agglutinin disease
Complex regional pain syndrome
CREST syndrome
Crohn's disease
Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia
Cutaneous lupus erythematosus

D

Dermatitis herpetiformis
Dermatomyositis
Diabetes mellitus type 1
Diffuse interstitial keratitis
Discoid lupus erythematosus

E

Endometriosis
Enthesitis-related arthritis
Eosinophilic esophagitis
Eosinophilic fasciitis
Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita
Episcleritis
Encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroid disease
Erythema nodosum
Essential mixed cryoglobulinemia
Evans syndrome

F

Felty syndrome
Fibromyalgia*

G

Gestational pemphigoid
Giant cell arteritis
Goodpasture syndrome
Graves' disease
Graves ophthalmopathy
Guillain–Barré syndrome

H

Hashimoto's Encephalopathy
Hashimoto Thyroiditis
Hidradenitis suppurativa

I

Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
IgA nephropathy
IgG4-related systemic disease
Inclusion body myositis
Intermediate uveitis
Interstitial cystitis

J

Juvenile arthritis

K

Kawasaki's disease

L

Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome
Leukocytoclastic vasculitis
Lichen planus
Lichen sclerosus
Ligneous conjunctivitis
Linear IgA disease
Lupus nephritis
Lupus vasculitis
Lyme disease (Chronic)

M

Ménière's disease
Microscopic colitis
Microscopic polyangiitis
Mixed connective tissue disease
Mooren's ulcer
Morphea
Mucha-Habermann disease
Multiple sclerosis
Myasthenia gravis
Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein disease (MOG)
Myocarditis
Myositis

N

Narcolepsy with cataplexy
Neuromyelitis optica
Neuromyotonia

O

Opsoclonus myoclonus syndrome
Optic neuritis
Ord's thyroiditis

P

Palindromic rheumatism
Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration
Parry Romberg syndrome
Parsonage-Turner syndrome
Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcus
Pemphigus vulgaris
Pernicious anemia
Pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta
POEMS syndrome
Polyarteritis nodosa
Polymyalgia rheumatica
Polymyositis
Postmyocardial infarction syndrome
Postpericardiotomy syndrome
Primary biliary cirrhosis
Primary sclerosing cholangitis
Psoriasis
Psoriatic arthritis
Pure red cell aplasia
Purpura rheumatica
Pyoderma gangrenosum

R

Raynaud’s phenomenon
Reactive arthritis
Relapsing polychondritis
Restless leg syndrome
Retinocochleocerebral vasculopathy
Retroperitoneal fibrosis
Rheumatic chorea
Rheumatic fever
Rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatoid vasculitis

S

Sarcoidosis
Schnitzler syndrome
Scleritis
Scleroderma
Sjogren's syndrome
Stiff person syndrome
Subacute bacterial endocarditis
Susac's syndrome
Sydenham chorea
Sympathetic ophthalmia
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Systemic scleroderma

T

Takayasu arteritis
Tolosa-Hunt syndrome
Transverse myelitis

U

Ulcerative colitis
Undifferentiated connective tissue disease
Urticaria
Urticarial vasculitis

V

Vasculitis
Vitiligo

W

Warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia