several techniques and materials have been introduced for the treatment of gingival recession defects. this article reports the case of a 43-year old female patient with chief complaint of esthetic problem, presenting multiple gingival recession defects in anterior maxilla. cenoderm combined with coronally positioned flap was used for management of six teeth with gingival recession. complete ro...

We examined the effect of phytohemagglutinin (PHA) on glucocorticoid receptors in lymphocytes, using peripheral mononuclear leukocytes from patients with connective tissue diseases. Glucocorticoid receptor concentrations and dissociation constants (Kd) for [3H]dexamethasone binding to lymphocytes from patients with rheumatoid arthritis, Sjögren's syndrome, and other connective tissue diseases d...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and related disorders are chronic inflammatory diseases characterized by abnormalities and, in some cases, even complete failure of immune responses as the underlying pathology. Although almost all connective tissue diseases and related disorders can be complicated by various neuropsychiatric syndromes, SLE is a typical connective tissue disease that can cause...

Pericardial disorders occurring in connective tissue diseases are not uncommon and may present as acute or chronic pericarditis with or without an effusion. In many instances, a diagnosis of pericardial involvement is not found until autopsy. Echocardiography and other currently employed radiographic techniques have enhanced the ability to make a diagnosis. Approximate frequencies of common con...

Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage can accompany many diseases, including systemic vasculitis and other connective tissue diseases. Rapid diagnostics immediate implementation of adequate treatment are extremely important. In this paper is presented a 63-year-old patient with fever, dyspnoea massive haemoptysis, admitted as part the emergency department.

Interstitial lung disease is a common complication of many of the connective tissue diseases. Because the prognosis, degree of reversibility, and optimal therapy differs for each disease presentation, a thorough knowledge of the pulmonary presentations of each connective tissue disease is important. Additionally, the challenge of finding the patient who has occult connective tissue disease in a...

normal pressure hydrocephalus (nph) is characterized by gait apraxia, urinary incontinence, and dementia. mixed connective tissue disease (mctd) is an autoimmune connective tissue disease that has never been reported to cause nph. our patient was a 67-year man with a one-year history of gradual worsening gait and balance, urinary urgency with urge incontinence and decreased short-term memory. p...

Lower extremity ulcers are a late complication of connective tissue diseases and occur more commonly in patients with these diseases than in the general population. Although these lesions have historically been attributed to vasculitis, it is now recognized that inflammatory vessel injury accounts for fewer than 20% of ulcers in connective tissue disease. The pathogenesis of these lesions is co...

BACKGROUND Silicone breast implants have been linked to a variety of illnesses, the most controversial of which are connective-tissue diseases and symptoms. To study this relation, we analyzed data from 14 years of follow-up of the Nurses' Health Study cohort. METHODS Women who were free from connective-tissue disease in June 1976 were followed through May 31, 1990, before there was widesprea...

BACKGROUND Whether an association exists between infection with beta -herpesviruses and connective tissue diseases remains unclear, as are the mechanisms for the regulation of these infections in the salivary glands. METHODS Human herpesvirus (HHV)-7 was isolated and viral DNA was quantified by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in serially collected saliva samples, to determine whethe...