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| Symptoms: | Symptoms of autoimmune disease vary widely depending on the type of disease. A group of very nonspecific symptoms often accompany autoimmune diseases especially of the collagen vascular type and include:
Specific autoimmune disease results in:
- destruction of an organ or tissue resulting in decreased functioning of an organ or tissue (for example, the islet cells of the pancreas are destroyed in diabetes)
- increase in size of an organ or tissue (for example, thyroid enlargement in Grave's disease)
Note: Symptoms vary with the specific disorder and the organ or tissue affected.
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| Signs and tests: | Signs vary according to the specific disorder. This disease may also alter the results of the following tests:
- erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)
- C-reactive protein (CRP)
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Review Date: 8/3/2003
Reviewed By: Megan Clowse, M.D., Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.
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