Exposures to silica dust, solvents or heavy metals increase the likelihood of developing various forms of myositis, ...

The nurse can be very helpful to the patient and family by educating and reassuring them during the many tests needed to diagnose scleroderma pulmonary disease. The patient will be less anxious if ...

Additionally, scleroderma renal crisis and pulmonary hypertension lead to significant cardiac dysfunction secondary to damage in the kidney and lung. This report summarizes the recent advances to ...

Scleroderma is a rare disease in which a person's immune system begins to destroy normal, healthy tissues. (This is called an autoimmune disease.) As a result, connective tissue of the skin, lungs, ...

In some cases, it progresses slowly and is limited to the skin, while in others, it rapidly attacks internal organs such as the lungs, heart, or kidneys. The exact cause of scleroderma remains ...