Scleroderma causes areas of tight, hard skin, but can also harm your blood vessels and organs. Learn the causes and treatments of this skin disease.

Scleroderma causes areas of tight, hard skin, but can also harm your blood vessels and organs. Learn the causes and treatments of this skin disease.

Mar 20, 2019 · Both forms are systemic. A few Scleroderma patients are negative for the antibodies. Most people are diagnosed with a combination of symptoms & bloodwork. Early symptoms usually …

Feb 29, 2016 · Systemic sclerosis is a connective tissue vascular disease with the hallmark feature of skin thickening caused by an increase in collagen, a protein that makes up the building block of …

Nov 14, 2024 · 2646: Rare Variants in the IL1RAP Gene Implicate the IL-1 Signaling Pathway in the Pathogenesis of Systemic Sclerosis in African and European Ancestries Yosuke Kunishita …

Mar 26, 2021 · Does that mean I have all three items in the nucleolar pattern? (AC-8,9,10) Systemic Sclerosis, systemic sclerosis/polymyositis overlap and Sjogren's syndrome? I already have issues …

Nov 12, 2018 · CREST is the old name for what is now called limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis, or limited scleroderma for short. It is systemic, meaning it affects internal organs to varying degrees. As …

Oct 26, 2017 · The skin in systemic sclerosis patients tends to loosen up ON ITS OWN in some cases as time progresses. Most specialists think that the skin score will "peak" around 12-18 months, and …

Feb 26, 2012 · I was diagnosed with systemic sclerosis 6 years ago and started having an occasional bout of vertigo. Recently, those bouts have become more and more frequent and severe.

Jan 7, 2023 · The reason for the focus on the systemic Scleroderma (SSc) panel is the GI symptoms, which are almost universal with SSc. The need for iron infusions combined with possible GAVE …