One common symptom is the thickening and tightening of the skin, which can affect not only appearance but also mobility.

At 20, she was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and given just six months to live. She started aggressive treatment and ...

Scleroderma is a rare, autoimmune condition in which the body produces too much collagen, causing the skin and connective tissue to thicken.

Scleroderma is an autoimmune connective-tissue disease whose hallmark is excessive collagen deposited around capillaries and in affected tissues, such as the skin, lungs, kidneys, and esophagus ...

Scleroderma is a rare autoimmune condition in which the regulation and deposition of collagen is impaired, causing inflammation and fibrosis (thickening and scarring of connective tissue ...

Lupus affects different people in different ways. Many people with lupus have problems with the heart, lungs, and blood. How does lupus affect the heart, lungs, and blood? Your heart, blood vessels, ...

Through these studies, they found that the lungs of patients with scleroderma have less Cathepsin L than healthy lungs. They noticed that Cathepsin L was also reduced in fibroblasts, the cells ...

Systemic sclerosis is a degenerative disorder that affects your skin, joints, and organs. What’s the likelihood your lungs will be scarred or damaged as a result?

Dad given two years to live after cold fingers turn out to be deadly rare condition The rare autoimmune condition causes Scott Nell’s skin to harden and thicken ...

A Des Moines woman who rode the annual trek across Iowa to raise awareness for scleroderma got what she was waiting for: a double-lung transplant.

The leading cause of mortality in patients with systemic sclerosis is scleroderma interstitial lung disease. Leukotrienes and lipoxins are thought to be key mediators of the inflamatory response ...

Rapidly advancing skin hardness predicts internal organ involvement and internal involvement, especially of the kidneys and lungs, generally indicates a poor prognosis. [2,7] With these facts in ...