“…It is well known that endometriosis co-occurs in individuals with autoimmune diseases more often than in the general population [13]. This includes individuals with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), Hashimoto's autoimmune thyroiditis, multiple sclerosis (MS), diabetes mellitus type 1, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), Graves' disease, vitiligo, and celiac disease (CD), among others [13][14][15]. In autoimmune diseases, the immune system mistakenly recognizes its own tissues as immunologically foreign and then induces cellular immunity mechanisms based on T lymphocytes (T cells), macrophages, and natural killer (NK) cells to destroy them.…”