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

Methods: Thirty patients affected by scleroderma (five men and 25 women, mean age 49.3 years, mean disease duration 8 years, 19 with limited and 11 with diffuse disease patterns) were treated for ...

[2] Patients with diffuse cutaneous scleroderma with skin thickening on the proximal extremities or the trunk are in highest danger of developing SRC, at 20% to 25%, and so should be followed ...

Scleroderma is more likely to cause serious complications if it affects your ability to breathe or process food. It can be fatal. Systemic sclerosis has three subtypes – diffuse, limited and sine ...

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Taken together, SSc sine scleroderma (n=9/20, 45%) and limited cutaneous SSc (n=9/20, 45%) were the dominant subsets of SSc at myositis diagnosis, while diffuse cutaneous SSc (n=2, 10%) was less ...

including for diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus ("SLE"), scleroderma, alopecia areata, and vitiligo. As I mentioned earlier, the larger the market, the higher the competition between ...

Shifting and rather diffuse local tenderness was noticed in ... Sjögren's syndrome and scleroderma. The capacity to develop an autoimmune reaction may represent a feature common to patients ...

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.

We constructed miniaturized autoantigen arrays to perform large-scale multiplex characterization of autoantibody responses directed against structurally diverse autoantigens, using submicroliter ...

Methods Using baseline data from the Scleroderma Lung Study I (SLS I; N=158), multivariate regression analyses were performed using the best subset selection method to identify one to five variable ...