Autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type 3 variant in rheumatoid arthritis

Abstract

Introduction. Although type 1 diabetes mellitus is largely associated with autoimmune thyroid disease and this entity has been recently referred to as autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type 3 variant, the autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type 3 variant in patients with rheumatoid arthritis has not been reported so far. We herein describe the first case of rheumatoid arthritis that was associated with autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type 3 variant.

Keywords

• autoimmune thyroid disease (aitd)
• autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type 3 variant (aps3v)
• graves’ disease (gd)
• rheumatoid arthritis (ra)
• type 1 diabetes mellitus (t1d)
• type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2d)