Puffy hands and fingers, as well as other symptoms, can precede the “warning sign” of Raynaud’s syndrome as the initial ...

"Scleroderma (aka systemic sclerosis) is a chronic autoimmune condition characterized by progressive thickening, tightening, and hardening of the skin," Dr. Wendy Chi, a rheumatologist for Mount ...

Scleroderma is an autoimmune disease, which means that the body’s immune system attacks itself. Scleroderma involves the hardening and tightening of the skin and connective tissues. It has two forms; ...

The Dietz team's results are described in the Oct. 10 issue of Nature. Patients with systemic sclerosis, also known as systemic scleroderma, experience a sudden hardening, or fibrosis, of the skin.

She was 44 when she was diagnosed with systemic scleroderma. She passed away just two years later,” he told “NIH Medline Plus Magazine” in 2019.

Systemic scleroderma has slowed Tracy Zinn but it has not stopped her from working. Thanks in part to determination and an accommodating employer, Zinn is now in her 13th year as an account ...

Systemic sclerosis is an independent determinant for moderate to severe coronary calcification or atherosclerosis, suggests a new study. Conventional cardiovascular risk factors such as age and ...

The Dietz team's results are described in the Oct. 10 issue of Nature. Patients with systemic sclerosis, also known as systemic scleroderma, experience a sudden hardening, or fibrosis, of the skin.

I was diagnosed with systemic scleroderma right after I turned 20, just a couple weeks after my honeymoon, in October 2011. I had never heard of scleroderma before the doctor told me I had it.

Two years before his death, Bob Saget quietly offered his support to a family whose 9-year-old daughter is suffering from Scleroderma, the same disease that took the life of his sister in 1994.

Rituximab effectively reduced skin sclerosis and appeared to have a beneficial effect on interstitial lung disease (ILD) for patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) in a randomized, clinical trial ...