Nailfold capillaroscopy and classification criteria for systemic sclerosis.

نویسندگان

  • M Cutolo
  • M Matucci Cerinic
چکیده

1Research Laboratory and Academic Clinical Unit of Rheumatology, University of Genova; 2Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Florence, Italy. Maurizio Cutolo, MD; Marco Matucci Cerinic, MD, Professor. Please address correspondence to: Maurizio Cutolo, MD, Research Laboratory and Academic Clinical Unit of Rheumatology, University of Genova, Viale Benedetto XV, 6 – 16132 Genova, Italy. E-mail: [email protected] Received and accepted on August 6, 2007. © Copyright CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RHEUMATOLOGY 2007.

برای دانلود رایگان متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

Nailfold Capillaroscopy in Rheumatic Diseases: Which Parameters Should Be Evaluated?

Video nailfold capillaroscopy (NFC), considered as an extension of the widefield technique, allows a more accurate measuring and storing of capillary data and a better defining, analyzing, and quantifying of capillary abnormalities. Capillaroscopic study is often performed on the patients suspected of having microcirculation problems such as Raynaud's phenomenon as the main indication for nailf...

متن کامل

Usefulness of nailfold videocapillaroscopy for systemic sclerosis

Systemic sclerosis is a complex disease that involves "autoimmunity," "inflammation," "fibrosis," and "vasculopathy." Microvascular damage and dysfunction particularly represent the earliest morphological and functional markers of systemic sclerosis. These morphological changes and progressions can be detected by nailfold videocapillaroscopy (NVC). In 2013, the American College of Rheumatology ...

متن کامل

Nailfold digital capillaroscopic findings in patients with diffuse and limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis

BACKGROUND Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a chronic disease with microvascular damage. Nailfold capillaroscopy is a non-invasive method used for evaluating capillaries in SSc. Its findings could be related to the internal organ involvement and SSc course. In this study, we aimed to determine the association of the capillaroscopic patterns of nailfold capillaries with the disease subtypes of SSc, d...

متن کامل

Labial capillary microscopy in systemic sclerosis.

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether in vivo capillary microscopy of the lower lip mucosa can be used to assess microvascular disease in systemic sclerosis. METHODS Thirteen patients with systemic sclerosis and 11 healthy control subjects were studied by conventional nailfold capillary microscopy and labial capillaroscopy. The following parameters were analysed: loop length; loop width (maximum ...

متن کامل

Diagnostic value of nailfold capillaroscopy to systemic sclerosis with Raynaud’s phenomenon: a preliminary study

Raynaud’s phenomenon (RP) is one of the early clinical manifestations of diffuse connective tissue diseases (DCTD), such as systemic sclerosis (SSc), mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and dermatomyositis (DM)/ polymyositis (PM), and nailfold capillaroscopy (NC) enables an in vivo assessment of the morphology of cutaneous capillaries, and has been used f...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

عنوان ژورنال:
  • Clinical and experimental rheumatology

دوره 25 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007