Physicians significantly underestimated the proportion of patients with systemic sclerosis who experienced pain, with rates of 43.4% vs 96.0%.

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 ...

Systemic sclerosis, also known as scleroderma, is a rare disease characterized by the thickening and scarring of connective tissue of multiple organs in the body.

Sclero-smart, an ELISA blood test, was developed through a partnership with the MAST program. According to an abstract published by the ACR, 38% of patients with scleroderma tested positive for ...

Both systemic sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus have down-regulated RGS5, but they also have distinctive genetic ...

Systemic sclerosis, or scleroderma, dramatically increases the risk for coronary calcification or atherosclerosis, regardless of other risk factors.

Systemic scleroderma has slowed Tracy Zinn but it has not stopped her from working. Thanks in part to determination and an accommodating employer, Zinn is now in her 13th year as an account ...

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

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 ...

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 ...