Caroline Graettinger, left, and Taitia Shelow, both of Cecil Township, have been diagnosed with scleroderma, a rare autoimmune disease that causes hardening and thickening of the skin and other organs ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Injections yielded significant improvements in visual analog scale pain and Quick-DASH score, as well as skin ...

What is the latest research on scleroderma? Find out in this collection of recent MEDLINE abstracts compiled by the editors at Medscape Nurses. Acute and chronic renal diseases remain common ...

Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are the mainstay of therapy for patients with systemic sclerosis in scleroderma renal crisis, however mortality remains high even in the post-ACE ...

Following the 2017 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Annual Meeting—held in San Diego, California, November 3-8—Medscape spoke with Hospital for Special Surgery rheumatologists Dr Robert F.

Extracellular vesicles, responsible for cell-to-cell communication, might be a driver of fibrosis in systemic sclerosis, according to a recent paper in Arthritis and Rheumatology. Characterized by ...

More collagen in the human body is not always good, and Karin Wuertz-Kozak is investigating how disease progresses because of the increase in this important protein. Wuertz-Kozak recently received ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . DESTIN, Fla. — Detection and treatment of interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis calls for early and ...

The University of Michigan John Varga Lab, in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic and Northwestern researchers, published an article last year suggesting that a heavy-chain monoclonal antibody, Ab68, ...

Patients who underwent autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) for diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (dcSSc), also known as scleroderma, did no better than others receiving conventional ...