Researchers found no association between anti-U1RNP autoantibodies and 3-year ILD progression or mortality in patients with ...

Scleroderma is a multisystem disease that can affect the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, muscles, joints, skin, and underlying structures and tissues, kidneys, lungs, nerves, and heart.

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 ...

The mother-of-two has a unique form of systemic sclerosis, called scleroderma. This condition can cause symptoms such as ...

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) or scleroderma is a rare, chronic, autoimmune disorder that hardens connective tissue and muscle in ...

RNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics showed immune cell subsets that drive kidney and lung complications in systemic sclerosis ...

Treating rare diseases can be complicated at the best of times, and it gets even more complicated when different patients ...

A 65-year-old woman suffering from end-stage interstitial lung disease (ILD), caused by scleroderma, a rare autoimmune disorder, got a fresh lease of life after undergoing a complex bilateral lung ...

Shelow and Graettinger undergo care at UPMC Scleroderma Center, which specializes in diagnosing and treating the complex disease. The center includes doctors who specialize in skin, lungs, heart, GI ...

Scleroderma impacts everyone differently. For some, it hardens and tightens the skin and outer body. For others, it also hardens tendons, muscles and internal organs, including the lungs.

Pulmonary arterial hypertension, or PAH, is a type of high blood pressure that affects the arteries in your lungs and the right side of your heart. It’s a very serious condition that can change ...

Limited cutaneous scleroderma affects the skin slowly over time. It’s typically confined to ... and torso and can affect multiple organs, including the gastrointestinal tract, kidneys, lungs, ...