Glossary for Vitiligo

Medical terms related to Vitiligo or mentioned in this section include:

• Alezzandrini syndrome: A rare condition involving degenerative eye disease in one eye, followed by other facial symptoms on the same side and hearing impairment. The condition progresses over months or years.
• Altered pigmentation: discoloration of the skin can be caused by various factors
• Autosomal Dominant Genetic Diseases: Any conditions that are related to any non-sex-determining chromosome
• Candidiasis familial chronic mucocutaneous, autosomal dominant, with thyroid disease: A dominantly inherited condition characterized by poor immunity to fungal infections (particularly those caused by Candida albicans) as will as thyroid disease. Persistent fungal infections tend to affect the nails, skin or mucous membranes. The degree of severity is variable with some cases leading to fugal infection of the brain which is usually fatal.
• Dermatomyositis: A muscle disease characterized by chronic muscle inflammation resulting in progressive muscle weakness and a characteristic rash.
• Face symptoms: Symptoms affecting the face
• Head symptoms: Symptoms affecting the head or brain
• Hypopigmentation: Whitening of the skin from pigment loss
• Paleness: Whitening or pallor of the skin
• Pigmentation symptoms: Symptoms related to pigmentation levels in the skin.
• Polyendocrine deficiency syndrome type 2: Multi-endocrine syndrome usually affecting young adults.
• Polyglandular Autoimmune Syndrome type 3: A rare genetic disorder characterized by the malfunction of more than one endocrine gland resulting in impaired hormone production. The gland malfunction results from autoimmune damage to the tissue. There are four subtypes of the disorder with type 3 occurring mainly in female adults. Type 3 usually starts with thyroid gland problems and then other autoimmune conditions such as diabetes.
• Schrander-Stumpel, Theunissen, Hulsmans syndrome: A rare syndrome characterized mainly by vitiligo, psychomotor retardation, cleft lip and other facial anomalies.
• Skin color changes: Skin changes such as redness, blueness, or whitening.
• Skin pigmentation changes: discoloration of the skin can be caused
• Skin problems: Any condition that affects the skin
• Skin rash: Change in the skin which affects the color, appearance or texture.
• Skin symptoms: Symptoms affecting the skin.
• Spondylometaphyseal dysplasia with combined immunodeficiency: A rare syndrome characterized by skeletal abnormalities as well as a poor immune system.
• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with Vitiligo, Susceptibility to, 1: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus is an autoimmune disease affecting mostly women and causing various effects throughout different parts of the body. Its severity can range from very mild to extremely serious depending on which body organs are afflicted. Researchers have discovered a number of genes linked to an increased susceptibility of developing SLE and vitiligo. Type 1 is linked to a defect on chromosome 17p13.
• Vitiligo in infants: Condition where areas of de-pigmented (whitened) skin develops; occurs in people of all races and skin colours but more noticeable on darker skinned individuals
• Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Syndrome: A rare condition characterized by poliosis and hair, skin, eye and ear abnormalities as well as retinal detachment and neurological involvement.
• Whitaker syndrome: A condition that usually occurs in childhood caused by an autoimmune polyendocrinopathy
• Whitening: Whitening or reduced coloring of the skin

Conditions listing medical symptoms: Vitiligo:

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