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* [[Mixed connective tissue disease]]
* [[Mixed connective tissue disease]]
* [[Polymyalgia rheumatica]]
* [[Polymyalgia rheumatica]]
* [[Rheumatoid arthritis]]
* [[Rheumatoid arthritis]] - 80% a positive [[rheumatoid factor]] ([[autoantibody|autoantibodies]] against [[gamma-chain immunoglobulin]]s)
** [[Sjogren's Syndrome]]
** [[Sjogren's Syndrome]] - 60% have [[autoantibody|autoantibodies]] to [[SS-A antigen]] (Anti-Ro antigen) or [[SS-B antigen]] (Anti-La antigen)<ref name="pmid11014971">{{cite journal| author=Mavragani CP, Tzioufas AG, Moutsopoulos HM| title=Sjögren's syndrome: autoantibodies to cellular antigens. Clinical and molecular aspects. | journal=Int Arch Allergy Immunol | year= 2000 | volume= 123 | issue= 1 | pages= 46-57 | pmid=11014971
* [[Scleroderma]]
| url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=clinical.uthscsa.edu/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=11014971 }} </ref>
* [[Scleroderma]] - most have [[Antinuclear antibody|antinuclear antibodies]] or [[autoantibody|autoantibodies]] to [[centromere]] or [[DNA topoisomerase I]] (Anti-Scl-70)
Cartilage disease
Cartilage disease
* [[Relapsing Polychondritis]]
Collagen disease
Collagen disease
* [[Alport Syndrome]]
* [[Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome]]
* [[Osteogenesis Imperfecta]]


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Revision as of 20:04, 24 March 2010

In medicine and rheumatology, connective tissue diseases are "a heterogeneous group of disorders, some hereditary, others acquired, characterized by abnormal structure or function of one or more of the elements of connective tissue, i.e., collagen, elastin, or the mucopolysaccharides."[1]

Classification

Autoimmune disease

Cartilage disease

Collagen disease

References