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DefinitionAutoimmune? Polyendocrine (Polyglandular) Syndrome Type 2 (APS-2) is a lifelong immune system problem in which your body mistakenly attacks more than one hormone-making gland. The most...
DefinitionAutoimmune? Polyendocrine Syndrome Type 1 (APS-1) is a rare genetic disease where the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks several hormone-producing glands and some non-hormone tissues. It...
DefinitionAutoimmune? Polyendocrine Syndrome type 3 (APS-3) means a person has autoimmune? thyroid? disease (like Hashimoto’s or Graves’ disease) together with at least one other organ-specific autoimmune?...
DefinitionAutoimmune? Polyendocrinopathy Candidiasis-Ectodermal Dystrophy (APECED) is a rare disease that starts in childhood. It happens when a gene called AIRE does not work properly. AIRE’s normal...
DefinitionAutoimmune? polyendocrinopathy from AIRE mutation is a rare, inherited immune-system disease. It happens when a gene called AIRE (autoimmune? regulator) does not work correctly. AIRE’s normal...
DefinitionAutoimmune? polyendocrinopathy type 2 (APS-2) is a condition where a person’s immune system mistakenly attacks more than one hormone-making gland at the same time. By definition,...
DefinitionAutoimmune? polyendocrinopathy type 3 (APS-3) is a condition where the immune system mistakenly attacks the thyroid? gland and at least one other organ, causing two or...
DefinitionAutoimmune? polyglandular syndrome type 2 (APS-2) is a lifelong condition where the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks more than one hormone-making gland at the same time...
DefinitionAutoimmune? Polyglandular Syndrome Type 3 (APS-3) means a person has autoimmune? thyroid? disease (Hashimoto’s thyroiditis or Graves’ disease) together with at least one other organ-specific autoimmune?...
DefinitionAutoimmune? primary adrenal insufficiency happens when your immune system mistakenly attacks your own adrenal glands (two small glands that sit on top of the kidneys). Over...
DefinitionAutosomal dominant hyperinsulinism from KCNJ11 (Kir6.2) loss-of-function means the potassium channels (called KATP channels) on the beta cells in the pancreas do not open normally. When...
