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

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

"Scleroderma (aka systemic sclerosis) is a chronic autoimmune condition characterized by progressive thickening, tightening, and hardening of the skin," Dr. Wendy Chi, a rheumatologist for Mount ...

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

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; ...

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 ...

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.

I was diagnosed with systemic scleroderma right after I turned 20, just a couple weeks after my honeymoon, in October 2011. I had never heard of scleroderma before the doctor told me I had it.