Skin changes on the fingers may be an aesthetic defect and a signal of a severe disease. Although scleroderma is rare, it is ...

It’s normal to be colder in the winter — but what’s not normal is extremities growing so cold that they go numb and turn ...

Scleroderma is classified as a rare ... She has severe fatigue, arthralgias, and tight, itchy skin on her face, arms, hands, and trunk. She spends most of her days sitting up in the lounger ...

Scleroderma on the face can cause symptoms that may affect your appearance, including the texture, discoloration, and elasticity of your skin. Medications, facial exercises, and dermatological ...

Raynaud’s disease is a condition that affects one in six Brits that causes pain, numbness and pins and needles in the fingers ...

Low doses of glucocorticoids added to immunosuppression yield no significant benefit for skin fibrosis in early diffuse ...

According to Dr Eugene Genga, a rheumatologist, scleroderma is an autoimmune disease that affects the skin and other organs of the body, meaning that the body’s immune system causes inflammation ...

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, ...

Botulinum toxin injections in the hand led to significant reductions in pain and disability for patients with Raynaud’s syndrome secondary to scleroderma, according to data published in Clinical ...

[2] Patients with diffuse cutaneous scleroderma with skin thickening on the proximal extremities or the trunk are in highest danger of developing SRC, at 20% to 25%, and so should be followed ...