Achalasia in a Patient with Polyglandular Autoimmune Syndrome Type II

Achalasia is a rare disease characterized by aperistalsis of the esophageal body and failure of the lower esophageal sphincter to relax. The etiology of this disease remains unknown. Polyglandular autoimmune syndrome type II is a well-identified disease characterized by the occurrence of autoimmune...

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Autores principales: Amr, Bashar S., Mamillapalli, Chaitanya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2015
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Published online: May, 2015
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4464012/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26078736
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000430493
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description Achalasia is a rare disease characterized by aperistalsis of the esophageal body and failure of the lower esophageal sphincter to relax. The etiology of this disease remains unknown. Polyglandular autoimmune syndrome type II is a well-identified disease characterized by the occurrence of autoimmune Addison's disease in combination with autoimmune thyroid disease and/or type 1 diabetes mellitus. We report a case that suggests autoimmunity and immunogenicity as a probable contributing factor for association of these two rare disorders.
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spelling pubmed-44640122015-06-15 Achalasia in a Patient with Polyglandular Autoimmune Syndrome Type II Amr, Bashar S. Mamillapalli, Chaitanya Case Rep Gastroenterol Published online: May, 2015 Achalasia is a rare disease characterized by aperistalsis of the esophageal body and failure of the lower esophageal sphincter to relax. The etiology of this disease remains unknown. Polyglandular autoimmune syndrome type II is a well-identified disease characterized by the occurrence of autoimmune Addison's disease in combination with autoimmune thyroid disease and/or type 1 diabetes mellitus. We report a case that suggests autoimmunity and immunogenicity as a probable contributing factor for association of these two rare disorders. S. Karger AG 2015-05-13 /pmc/articles/PMC4464012/ /pubmed/26078736 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000430493 Text en Copyright © 2015 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
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title_short Achalasia in a Patient with Polyglandular Autoimmune Syndrome Type II
title_sort achalasia in a patient with polyglandular autoimmune syndrome type ii
topic Published online: May, 2015
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