She has severe fatigue, arthralgias, and tight, itchy skin on her face ... a nearby university medical department who diagnoses systemic sclerosis. She and her husband are frightened, especially ...

Systemic sclerosis causes the skin to tighten and harden resulting in a potentially fatal autoimmune condition that is associated with lung fibrosis and kidney disease. University of Michigan ...

The following is a summary of “Foot peripheral sensory neuropathy: a frequent disabling manifestation in systemic sclerosis,” ...

Systemic scleroderma, also known simply as scleroderma, is a chronic connective tissue disease characterized by progressive ...

Low doses of glucocorticoids added to immunosuppression yield no significant benefit for skin fibrosis in early diffuse ...

The clinical presentation of systemic sclerosis is characterized by skin thickening, Raynaud's phenomenon, vasculopathy-induced tissue death and fibrosis of internal organs. The mechanisms that ...

Scleroderma is a rare disease in which a person's immune system begins to destroy normal, healthy tissues. (This is called an autoimmune disease.) As a result, connective tissue of the skin, lungs, ...

Among the total systemic sclerosis cohort, 14% of individuals were categorized as frail and 53% as prefrail, with frailty status linked to an increased risk for mortality.

Acute and chronic renal diseases remain common complications of systemic sclerosis ... by fibroblasts present in skin fibrotic lesions, including scleroderma. The overexpression of connective ...

The odds of developing systemic lupus erythematosus or systemic sclerosis appear to significantly ... trials may exclude patients with skin of color and increase health disparities, according ...