Raynaud’s syndrome is one of those conditions people often shrug off as “just bad circulation,” yet for many, it’s a signal ...

Scleroderma interstitial lung disease (SLD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with systemic sclerosis. Although the pathogenesis of SLD is not clear, excessive fibrosis and ...

A esclerodermia é uma doença autoimune que afeta múltiplos sistemas. Embora os mecanismos fisiopatológicos que regem o desenvolvimento da esclerodermia sejam relativamente pouco compreendidos, os ...

1 Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Correspondence to: F M ...

Objective: To further assess the construct validity of the three European Scleroderma Study Group (EScSG) preliminary activity indices for systemic sclerosis (SSc): for SSc as a whole, for diffuse SSc ...

Stockholm syndrome isn't a psychological diagnosis. Instead, it's a way of understanding the emotional response some people have toward a captor or an abuser. It happens to some abuse and hostage ...

Planning to have a baby can be an exciting time in life. But if you have systemic sclerosis, or scleroderma, the excitement can be tempered by concerns related to your disease: Will scleroderma affect ...

Background: Anticentromere antibodies are characteristically observed in scleroderma but have recently been reported in other autoimmune rheumatic disorders, including Sjögren’s syndrome. It is not ...

Ask the Experts - Sjögren's Syndrome and Tongue Enlargement In Sjögren's syndrome, is there any enlargement of the lingual papillae? A 65-year-old woman has osteoporosis, severe xerostomy from ...

Sjogren's syndrome is an illness named for the Swedish physician Henrik Sjögren, who first described it. (For those interested in details, in English, the name is pronounced as “show-grin.” In Swedish ...

Telangiectasia is a common condition that affects many otherwise healthy people. But can also be a sign of a more serious disease. Telangiectasias (commonly known as "spider veins") are dilated or ...

Scleroderma on the face can cause symptoms that may affect your appearance, including the texture, discoloration, and elasticity of your skin. Medications, facial exercises, and dermatological ...