Fibromyalgia and autoimmune diseases: the pain behind autoimmunity.
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Quality of Life in Patients with Fibromyalgia
- Medicine
- 2013
Fibromyalgia and its comorbidities including pain have a considerable negative impact on the quality of life of fibromyalgia patients and a multidisciplinary approach appears to be most beneficial in management of this multifaceted illness.
Autoimmune Autonomic Dysfunction Syndromes: Potential Involvement and Pathophysiology Related to Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Silicone Breast Implant–Related Symptoms and Post-COVID Syndrome
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A new concept uniting complex regional pain syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, silicone breast implant–related symptoms, and post-COVID syndrome is introduced, namely “autoimmune autonomic dysfunction syndromes”.
The antinuclear antibody dense fine speckled pattern and possible clinical associations: An indication of a proinflammatory microenvironment.
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Fibromyalgia in women: somatisation or stress-evoked, sex-dimorphic neuropathic pain?
- MedicineClinical and experimental rheumatology
- 2020
Understanding fibromyalgia as a real stress-evoked neuropathic pain syndrome may lead to more compassionate patient care and may open new avenues for gender-related neuropathicPain investigation.
Association between Fibromyalgia and Autoimmune Thyroid Disease
- Medicine, Biology
- 2019
Among Iranian patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, the prevalence of FM seems to be comparable with the prevalence reported in the female general population, and a possible link between HT and FM needs further investigation in large population-based studies.
Immune System Sex Differences May Bridge the Gap Between Sex and Gender in Fibromyalgia
- Biology, MedicineFrontiers in Neuroscience
- 2019
It is hypothesize that the female predominance in FMS is due to a neuropathy-induced autoimmune pathophysiology, and invites the scientific community to verify the autoimmune hypothesis for FMS.
Antinuclear antibody and rheumatoid factor positivity in temporomandibular disorders
- Medicine, PsychologyHead & Face Medicine
- 2018
Rheumatoid factor and ANA could be considered as a screening test for the detection of autoimmune phenomena in TMD patients.
Fragile X-Associated Neuropsychiatric Disorders (FXAND)
- Psychology, BiologyFront. Psychiatry
- 2018
The name Fragile X-associated Neuropsychiatric Disorders (FXAND) is proposed in an effort to promote research and the use of fragile X DNA testing to enhance recognition and treatment for these disorders.
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Evidence for an autoimmune disease.
- Medicine, BiologyAutoimmunity reviews
- 2018
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