Multiple choice

After a thorough checkup, the doctor told Mr. Mehra that he was suffering from one of the severe systemic autoimmune diseases. Which of the following is a non-organ-specific (systemic) autoimmune disease of humans?

  1. Myasthenia gravis

  2. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)

  3. Hashimoto's thyroiditis

  4. Pernicious anemia

  5. Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
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B Correct answer
Explanation

SLE is a disease involving antibodies to non-organ specific antigens such as DNA and induces immune complexes, which deposit in the vascular bed causing kidney, skin, joint and cerebral lesions.

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