Addison's Disease

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This paper presents, in the form of a case study, general background information about Addison's disease. It describes how the patient develops Addison's disease, its symptoms and the testing that is done in order to determine in the symptoms are caused by Addison's disease. The paper presents a differential diagnosis for the patient and discusses the potential cures and treatments for the disease.

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"Modern day research can be presented to Skyla, and she can be reassured by the fact that there are many scientist and researchers working to find a better and shorter term cure for the disease that she is apparently suffering from. Anti-inflammatory or corticosteroid and immunosuppressive, or in other words, cyclosporine treatment and drug therapy is the method that is being used extensively today to treat autoimmune diseases. However, research is being conducted on how to improve the treatment methodologies, and thereby offer more benefits to the patients of these diseases. Future treatments of these diseases, like for example, Addison's disease, would probably include better and more sophisticated methods of treatment, which would be completely based on today's modern day understanding of the human immune system. Some examples are anti-idiotype antibodies, antigen peptides, anti-IL2 receptor antibodies, anti-CD4 antibodies, anti-TCR antibodies, and so on. Today, both experimental as well as natural animal models are being made just for the purpose of developing a better understanding and comprehension of the autoimmune system of the human body. (Tolerance and Autoimmunity)"

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