eng Science and Education Publishing International Journal of Celiac Disease 2334-3486 2023-09-04 11 1 28 31 10.12691/ijcd-11-1-6 IJCD20231116 article Aaron Lerner 1 2 Joz¨¦lio Freire de Carvalho jotafc@gmail.com 3 Thiago Ferreira da Silva 4 Carina Benzvi 4 Maria Fernanda Leal dos Santos Ribeiro 5 Motti Haimi 6 7 8 Chaim Sheba Medical Center, The Zabludowicz Research Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Israel N¨²cleo de Pesquisa em Doen?as Cr?nicas n?o Transmiss¨ªveis (NUPEN), School of Nutrition from the Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Instituto de Pesquisa e Ensino M¨¦dico do Estado de Minas Gerais Ltda (IPEMED), S?o Paulo-SP, Brazil UNEX University center School of Medicine, Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil Faculty of Medicine, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel A relationship between autism and autoimmunity is well known and various autoimmune diseases were associated with the autistic spectrum. Relapsing polychondritis is a rare autoimmune disease manifested mainly in adults. Following is the first case presentation of a girl presented with relapsing polychondritis who was on the autistic spectrum. Several mechanisms can be envisioned to connect those two diseases. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ijcd/11/1/6/ijcd-11-1-6.pdf relapsing polychondritis vasculitis autism Autism spectrum disorder ASD