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Autoimmune diseases are characterized by autoantibody formation and visceral involvement that is often of an inflammatory nature. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a classic immune complex disease characterized by antibody formation and inflammatory arthritis. Extra-articular manifestations of RA may also occur. Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma, SSc) is another autoimmune disease and includes autoantibody formation as well as visceral involvement; however, the visceral manifestations in SSc relate to excessive collagen deposition and/or a vasculopathy. Internal organ inflammatory changes are typically seen in other autoimmune diseases; however, these do not typically occur in SSc.
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Bolster, M.B. (2009). Autoimmune Diseases. In: Mahmoudi, M. (eds) Challenging Cases in Allergy and Immunology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-443-2_18
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