Pain in systemic connective tissue diseases

Systemic sclerosis and related connective tissue diseases: present and future

In April 2006, 30 international experts gathered in Athens, Greece, to discuss systemic sclerosis (SSc) and related connective tissue diseases (CTDs). SSc is a clinically heterogeneous and complex disease that is characterized by vascular dysfunction, vascular and extravascular fibrosis, and characteristic immune derangements, and for which few treatment options are available. The aims of the C...

Systemic lupus erythematosus and other connective tissue diseases.

Systemic connective tissue diseases: pathophysiology and laboratory diagnosis

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Connective tissue diseases.

Undiagnosed connective tissue diseases

Among different subgroups of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), those associated with connective tissue diseases (CTDs) have distinct hemodynamic and prognostic features; a correct etiologic diagnosis is thus mandatory.To estimate frequency and prognosis of previously undiagnosed CTDs in a suspect idiopathic (i) PAH cohort.Consecutive patients with PAH confirmed by right heart catheterizati...