Connective tissue diseases are a heterogeneous group of autoimmune disorders that affect any of the body's connective tissues. These disorders can be inherited or acquired, and can present with a ...

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mixed connective tissue disease; Spondyloarthropathies. Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and other types are autoimmune conditions that attack where tendons and ligaments attach to your bone.

We present a 33-year-old woman with anti-U1 ribonucleoprotein antibody positive mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) since the age of 13. Predominant features were of inflammatory arthritis, Raynaud ...

Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system produces antibodies that attack the body's own healthy cells. (The immune system misidentifies normal bodily ...

BACKGROUND: Carotid atherosclerosis is orchestrated by cell-cell communication that drives progression along a clinical continuum (asymptomatic to symptomatic). Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are ...

Background: Only half of patients diagnosed with SLE fulfill classification criteria; the rest have “SLE-like” illnesses such as UCTD. SLE patients are known to experience impaired health-related ...