Alexandra Briskey, an Arizona woman whose voice was affected by scleroderma, received a life-changing double lung transplant ...

New 3D tissue model offers a breakthrough tool for understanding and treating scleroderma and other fibrotic diseases.

"Every day is a new day. And every day you wake up and you thank God for breath, but you never know what's going to happen ...

A Valley mother and singer is finding her voice again after she received a double lung transplant at Dignity Health St.

For the 300,000 Americans living with the immune disease scleroderma, better treatments can't come soon enough. The rare and ...

Briskey, 41, is a wife and mother of two young boys. She grew up in the Phoenix area before moving to Salem. She had been ...

Using skin and blood samples from scleroderma patients, the team grew lab-based skin: pinkish, pancake-like, little disks of ...

First, the antifibrotic protein Cathepsin L is reduced in the lungs of patients with scleroderma. Second, Cathepsin L plays an important role in releasing endostatin, another antifibrotic protein ...

Researchers at the MUSC are focusing on what causes fibrosis in scleroderma to spread. They looked at the extracellular vesicles released from the lung tissue of patients with scleroderma and ...

Medical University of South Carolina researchers show that patients with scleroderma, a connective tissue disease, and lung fibrosis, or scarring, have too little of the antifibrotic protein ...

In some cases, scleroderma causes scarring on internal organs. In the gastrointestinal tract, that can lead to acid reflux and malnutrition; in the lungs’ blood vessels, it can lead to pulmonary ...

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?