Janet Pope, MD, MPH, discusses screening and diagnostic approaches for interstitial lung disease in patients with systemic ...

Puffy hands and fingers, as well as other symptoms, can precede the “warning sign” of Raynaud’s syndrome as the initial ...

Patients with SSc vs controls showed a greater prevalence of WMH on brain MRIs, particularly in deep white matter regions.

She was 44 when she was diagnosed with systemic scleroderma," he told NIH Medline Plus Magazine in 2019. "She got treatment, but it was just treating her symptoms with drugs like prednisone and ...

Scleroderma is an autoimmune disease, which means that the body’s immune system attacks itself. Scleroderma involves the hardening and tightening of the skin and connective tissues. It has two forms; ...

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) sine scleroderma (ssSSc) was proposed as a distinct disease subtype in 1986, but no data were published to support a separate classification. [3] ...

The Dietz team's results are described in the Oct. 10 issue of Nature. Patients with systemic sclerosis, also known as systemic scleroderma, experience a sudden hardening, or fibrosis, of the skin.

She was 44 in 1992 when she was diagnosed with systemic scleroderma, a disease that strikes mostly women in the prime of their lives. She had been living in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, but moved ...

She was 44 when she was diagnosed with systemic scleroderma. She passed away just two years later,” he told “NIH Medline Plus Magazine” in 2019.

Systemic sclerosis is an independent determinant for moderate to severe coronary calcification or atherosclerosis, suggests a new study. Conventional cardiovascular risk factors such as age and ...

“In systemic sclerosis, the gastrointestinal tract is incredibly important to understand,” Tracy M. Frech, MD, MS, director of the Systemic Sclerosis Clinic and director of clinical trials for ...