1Chaim Sheba Medical Center, The Zabludowicz Research Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Israel
2Ariel University, Ariel, Israel
3Núcleo de Pesquisa em Doenças Crônicas não Transmissíveis (NUPEN), School of Nutrition from the Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
4Instituto de Pesquisa e Ensino Médico do Estado de Minas Gerais Ltda (IPEMED), São Paulo-SP, Brazil
5UNEX University center School of Medicine, Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil
6Faculty of Medicine, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
7School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel;Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv, Israel
International Journal of Celiac Disease.
2023,
Vol. 11 No. 1, 28-31
DOI: 10.12691/ijcd-11-1-6
Copyright © 2023 Science and Education PublishingCite this paper: Aaron Lerner, Jozélio Freire de Carvalho, Thiago Ferreira da Silva, Carina Benzvi, Maria Fernanda Leal dos Santos Ribeiro, Motti Haimi. Relapsing Polychondritis in a Child with Autism: Rare within Rare 1st Case Described.
International Journal of Celiac Disease. 2023; 11(1):28-31. doi: 10.12691/ijcd-11-1-6.
Correspondence to: Jozélio Freire de Carvalho, Núcleo de Pesquisa em Doenças Crônicas não Transmissíveis (NUPEN), School of Nutrition from the Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Email:
jotafc@gmail.comAbstract
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.
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