Letter: Raynaud's disease and systemic sclerosis.

Letter to the Editor Clinical association of serum interleukin 17 levels in systemic sclerosis: Is systemic sclerosis a Th17 disease?

Macrovascular disease and systemic sclerosis.

OBJECTIVE To determine if macrovascular disease is more prevalent in systemic sclerosis (SSc) compared with unaffected subjects. METHODS 54 patients with SSc (both limited and diffuse disease) and 43 unaffected control subjects of similar age and sex were recruited. All subjects underwent a basic screen for conventional atherosclerotic disease risk factors. All had non-invasive vascular asses...

Peyronie's disease in systemic sclerosis.

Cardiovascular disease in systemic sclerosis.

Cardiovascular (CV) system involvement is a frequent complication of autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). It still remains unclear if a premature atherosclerosis (ATS) occurs even in systemic sclerosis (SSc). Although microvascular disease is a hallmark of SSc, in the last few years a number of studies highlighted a higher prevalence of m...

Vascular Disease in Systemic Sclerosis

1Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto VA Health Care System, 3801 Miranda Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA 2Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Gloriastr. 25, 8091 Zürich, Switzerland 3Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University, 5501 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Room 1B.7, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA 4Division of Immunolo...