List of Autoimmune Diseases and Autoimmune-Related Diseases

There is continuing debate about when a disease should be considered autoimmune. In spite of that, on this webpage you’ll find an overview on autoimmune and autoimmunity-related disorders in alphabetical order.

The overview lists the names in medical and in colloquial usage, the synonyms and abbreviations. As a matter of course this is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.

This glossary is under continual construction, hence it is fragmentary; – updated: 20/08/2012.

AAA

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM)
Acute necrotizing hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis
Addison’s disease
ADEM
Agammaglobulinemia
AIED (autoimmune inner ear disease)
Alopecia areata
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS)
Antisynthetase syndrome
APS
Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS)
Amyloidosis
ASC (autoimmune sclerosing cholangitis)
Autoimmune angioedema
Autoimmune aplastic anemia
Autoimmune cardiomyopathy
Autoimmune dysautonomia
Autoimmune hemolytic anemia
Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH)
Autoimmune hyperlipidemia
Autoimmune immunodeficiency
Autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED)
Autoimmune liver disease
Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome
Autoimmune myocarditis
Autoimmune pancreatitis
Autoimmune peripheral neuropathy
Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome
Autoimmune progesterone dermatitis
Autoimmune retinopathy
Autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura (ATP)
Autoimmune thyroid disease
Autoimmune urticaria
Autoimmune uveitis
Autoimmune sclerosing cholangitis (ASC)
Autoimmune thyroiditis
Axonal and neuronal neuropathies

BBB

Balo disease
Bechterew’s disease
Behcet’s disease
Bullous pemphigoid

CCC

Cardiomyopathy
Castleman disease
Celiac disease
Chagas disease (suspected)
Chronic fatigue syndrome ** (please note footer!)
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
Chronic recurrent multifocal ostomyelitis (CRMO)
Churg-Strauss syndrome
Cicatricial pemphigoid/benign mucosal pemphigoid
Cogans syndrome
Cold agglutinin disease
Common sprue
Congenital heart block
Coxsackie myocarditis
CREST syndrome
Crohn’s disease

DDD

Demyelinating neuropathies
Dermatitis herpetiformis
Dermatomyositis
Devic’s disease (neuromyelitis optica)
Diabetes, autoimmune
Diabetes type 1
Disseminated sclerosis
Discoid lupus
Dressler’s syndrome

EEE

Encephalomyelitis disseminata
Endometriosis (suspected)
Eosinophilic esophagitis
Eosinophilic fasciitis
Erythema nodosum
Essential mixed cryoglobulinemia
Experimental allergic encephalomyelitis
Evan’s syndrome

FFF

Fibromyalgia ** (please note footer!)

GGG

Giant cell arteritis (temporal arteritis)
Glomerulonephritis (sometimes)
Gluten-sensitive enteropathy
Goodpasture’s syndrome
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA)
Granulomatosis, Wegener’s
Graves’ disease
Guillain-Barré syndrome

HHH

Hashimoto’s encephalitis
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
Hemolytic anemia
Henoch-Schonlein purpura
Herpes gestationis
Hughes syndrome
Hypogammaglobulinemia

I I I

Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
IgA nephropathy
IgG4-related sclerosing disease
Immunoregulatory lipoproteins
Inclusion body myositis
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
Insulin-dependent diabetes (type 1 diabetes)
Interstitial cystitis (suspected)

JJJ

Juvenile arthritis (JIA)
Juvenile diabetes (type 1 diabetes)

KKK

Kawasaki syndrome (supected)

LLL

Lambert-Eaton syndrome
Leukocytoclastic vasculitis
Lichen planus
Lichen sclerosus
Ligneous conjunctivitis
Limited scleroderma (CREST syndrome)
Linear IgA disease (LAD)
LEMS
Lupus erythematosus and SLE
Lyme disease, chronic

MMM

Meniere’s disease
Microscopic polyangiitis
Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD)
Morbus Bechterew
Mooren’s ulcer
Mucha-Habermann disease
Multiple sclerosis (MS)
Myasthenia gravis
Myositis

NNN

Narcolepsy (suspected)
Neuromyelitis optical (Devic’s disease)
Neutropenia

OOO

Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid
Optic neuritis

PPP

Palindromic rheumatism
PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcus) (suspected)
Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) (sometimes)
Parry Romberg syndrome
Parsonnage-Turner syndrome
Pars planitis (peripheral uveitis)
PBC
Pemphigus
Peripheral neuropathy
Peripheral uveitis (pars planitis)
Perivenous encephalomyelitis
Pernicious anaemia
POEMS syndrome
Polyarteritis nodosa
Polyglandular syndromes, autoimmune
Polymyalgia rheumatica
Polymyositis
Polymyositis/dermatomyositis overlap
Postmyocardial infarction syndrome
Postpericardiotomy syndrome
Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC)
Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC)
Progesterone dermatitis
Psoriasis
Psoriasis arthritis (PsA)
Pulmonary fibrosis, idiopathic
Pure red cell aplasia
Pyoderma gangrenosum

RRR

Raynaud’s syndrome (suspected)
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
Reiter’s syndrome
Relapsing polychondritis
Restless legs syndrome (suspected)
Retroperitoneal fibrosis
Rheumatic fever
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
Rheumatic spondylitis

SSS

Sarcoidosis (suspected)
Schmidt syndrome
Scleritis
Stiff person syndrome
Subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE)
Susac’s syndrome
Sympathetic ophthalmia
Scleroderma (suspected)
Sclerosing cholangitis
Sclerosis, multiple
Sicca syndrome
Sharp syndrome
Sjögren’s syndrome
SLE
Sperm and testicular autoimmunity
Spondylitis ankylosans
Sprue
Stiff person syndrome (suspected)
Subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE)
Susac’s syndrome
Sympathetic ophthalmia
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
Systemic sclerosis (SSc)

TTT

Takayasu’s arteritis
Temporal arteritis (giant cell arteritis)
Thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)
Tolosa-Hunt syndrome
Transverse myelitis
Thyroiditis, chronic lymphatic

UUU

Ulcerative colitis
Undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD)
Uveitis

VVV

Vasculitis, autoimmune
Vesiculobullous dermatosis
Vitamin B12 deficiency
Vitiligo (suspected)

WWW

Wegener’s granulomatosis, now termed Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA)

** NOTE: The fibromyalgia syndrome and the chronic fatigue syndrome are listed here, not because they are autoimmune diseases, but because many patients suffering from these ailments additonally show autoimmune disorders.