American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association lists over 150 autoimmune diseases and includes some very common diseases. Rheumatologists treat musculoskeletal and autoimmune diseases.

  1. Rheumatoid arthritis
  2. Lupus (SLE, and the other types)
  3. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
  4. Drug-induced lupus,
  5. Discoid lupus
  6. Neonatal Lupus
  7. Multiple sclerosis
  8. Sarcoidosis
  9. Myasthenia gravis
  10. Dermatitis herpetiformis
  11. Dermatomyositis
  12. Myositis
  13. Psoriasis
  14. Psoriatic arthritis
  15. Narcolepsy
  16. Achalasia
  17. Addison’s disease
  18. Adult Still’s disease
  19. Agammaglobulinemia
  20. Alopecia areata
  21. Amyloidosis
  22. Ankylosing spondylitis
  23. Anti-GBM/Anti-TBM nephritis
  24. Antiphospholipid syndrome
  25. Autoimmune angioedema
  26. Autoimmune dysautonomia
  27. Autoimmune encephalomyelitis
  28. Autoimmune hepatitis
  29. Autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED)
  30. Autoimmune myocarditis
  31. Autoimmune oophoritis
  32. Autoimmune orchitis
  33. Autoimmune pancreatitis
  34. Autoimmune retinopathy
  35. Autoimmune urticaria
  36. Axonal & neuronal neuropathy (AMAN)
  37. Baló disease
  38. Behcet’s disease
  39. Benign mucosal pemphigoid
  40. Bullous pemphigoid
  41. Castleman disease (CD)
  42. Celiac disease
  43. Chagas disease
  44. Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
  45. Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO)
  46. Churg-Strauss Syndrome (CSS) or Eosinophilic Granulomatosis (EGPA)
  47. Cicatricial pemphigoid
  48. Cogan’s syndrome
  49. Cold agglutinin disease
  50. Congenital heart block
  51. Coxsackie myocarditis
  52. Crohn’s disease
  53. Devic’s disease (neuromyelitis optica)
  54. Dressler’s syndrome
  55. CREST syndrome
  56. Endometriosis
  57. Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE)
  58. Eosinophilic fasciitis
  59. Erythema nodosum
  60. Essential mixed cryoglobulinemia
  61. Evans syndrome
  62. Fibromyalgia
  63. Fibrosing alveolitis
  64. Giant cell arteritis (temporal arteritis)
  65. Giant cell myocarditis
  66. Glomerulonephritis
  67. Goodpasture’s syndrome
  68. Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis
  69. Graves’ disease
  70. Guillain-Barre syndrome
  71. Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
  72. Hemolytic anemia
  73. Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP)
  74. Herpes gestationis or pemphigoid gestationis (PG)
  75. Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) (Acne Inversa)
  76. Hypogammaglobulinemia
  77. IgA Nephropathy
  78. IgG4-related sclerosing disease
  79. Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
  80. Inclusion body myositis (IBM)
  81. Interstitial cystitis (IC)
  82. Juvenile arthritis
  83. Juvenile diabetes (Type 1 diabetes)
  84. Juvenile myositis (JM)
  85. Kawasaki disease
  86. Lambert-Eaton syndrome
  87. Leukocytoclastic vasculitis
  88. Lichen planus
  89. Lichen sclerosus
  90. Ligneous conjunctivitis
  91. Linear IgA disease (LAD)
  92. Lyme disease chronic
  93. Meniere’s disease
  94. Microscopic polyangiitis (MPA)
  95. Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD)
  96. Mooren’s ulcer
  97. Mucha-Habermann disease
  98. Multifocal Motor Neuropathy (MMN) or MMNCB
  99. Neuromyelitis optica
  100. Neutropenia
  101. Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid
  102. Optic neuritis
  103. Palindromic rheumatism (PR)
  104. PANDAS
  105. Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration (PCD)
  106. Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)
  107. Parry Romberg syndrome
  108. Pars planitis (peripheral uveitis)
  109. Parsonage-Turner syndrome
  110. Pemphigus
  111. Peripheral neuropathy
  112. Perivenous encephalomyelitis
  113. Pernicious anemia (PA)
  114. POEMS syndrome
  115. Polyarteritis nodosa
  116. Polyglandular syndromes type I, II, III
  117. Polymyalgia rheumatica
  118. Polymyositis
  119. Postmyocardial infarction syndrome
  120. Postpericardiotomy syndrome
  121. Primary biliary cirrhosis
  122. Primary sclerosing cholangitis
  123. Progesterone dermatitis
  124. Pure red cell aplasia (PRCA)
  125. Pyoderma gangrenosum
  126. Raynaud’s phenomenon
  127. Reactive Arthritis
  128. Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
  129. Relapsing polychondritis
  130. Restless legs syndrome (RLS)
  131. Retroperitoneal fibrosis
  132. Rheumatic fever
  133. Schmidt syndrome
  134. Scleritis
  135. Scleroderma
  136. Sjögren’s syndrome
  137. Sperm & testicular autoimmunity
  138. Stiff person syndrome (SPS)
  139. Subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE)
  140. Susac’s syndrome
  141. Sympathetic ophthalmia (SO)
  142. Takayasu’s arteritis
  143. Temporal arteritis/Giant cell arteritis
  144. Thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)
  145. Tolosa-Hunt syndrome (THS)
  146. Transverse myelitis
  147. Type 1 diabetes
  148. Ulcerative colitis (UC)
  149. Undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD)
  150. Uveitis
  151. Vasculitis
  152. Vitiligo
  153. Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease

 

Links to check

https://www.niams.nih.gov/health-topics/autoimmune-diseases

https://www.rheumatology.org/I-Am-A/Patient-Caregiver/Diseases-Conditions

https://www.rheumatology.org/I-Am-A/Patient-Caregiver/Health-Care-Team/What-is-a-Rheumatologist

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