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For over a dozen years, a group of autoimmune diseases has been distinguished in various medical specialties, including dermatology. They include diseases when the human body builds up antibodies against its own tissues.
The causes of these strange phenomena are not yet fully understood, many theories remain hypothesized. There is a lot of new data constantly, and a lot of diagnostic tests have recently appeared. This is important because these diseases often have a variety of confusing symptoms, and many medications that have side effects must be used to treat them.
In the group of autoimmune diseases, the so-called connective tissue diseases (lupus erythematosus with many varieties, scleroderma, dermatomyositis and so-called superimposition syndromes) and bullous diseases (including several types of pemphigus, pemphigoid with its variants, dermatitis herpetiformis).
The diagnosis of these diseases is often difficult. They require the diagnosis of specialist doctors, often hospital examinations. Treatment takes a long time and requires a lot of discipline on the part of the patient.
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