We show that increased plasma superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) levels are statistically significant predictors of the failure of pentavalent antimony treatment for cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania braziliensis. In Leishmania amazonensis-infected patients, host SOD1 levels can be used to discriminate between localized and drug-resistant diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis. Using in situ tra...

We herein present the imaging findings in a case of diffuse primary cutaneous B-cell lymphoma of the cranial vault with orbital and brain invasion. MR imaging revealed first concomitant orbital and parenchymal invasion in a case of primary diffuse non-Hodgkin lymphoma of the cranial vault. Contrast-enhanced MR imaging revealed a diffuse mass in the scalp of the frontoparietal region bilaterally...

BACKGROUND Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma; SSc) is an orphan disease with the highest case-specific mortality of any connective-tissue disease. Excessive collagen deposit in affected tissues is a key for the disease's pathogenesis and comprises most of the clinical manifestations. Lidocaine seems to be an alternative treatment for scleroderma considering that: a) the patient's having excessive...

Purpose Localised scleroderma (LS) and juvenile systemic sclerosis (jSSc) are very rare paediatric diseases managed by paediatric rheumatologists and dermatologists[1]. Optimal treatment is controversial in the absence of clinical trials, but most paediatric rheumatologists advocate systemic immunosuppression to avoid progressive deformity, functional disability and disfigurement[2]. We aimed t...

Scleroderma renal crisis has been documented as the presenting manifestation of systemic sclerosis sine scleroderma in pregnancy only once in the literature. Unfortunately, since scleroderma renal crisis in sine scleroderma pregnant patients is so rare, that patient expired. We present a case of a sine scleroderma pregnant patient with an initial manifestation of scleroderma renal crisis surviv...

Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Cantacuzino Hospital, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania Graf biostatistics, Winterthur, Switzerland Department of Rheumatology and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland Department of Rheumatology, Universit...

HSV: herpes simplex virus SCC: squamous cell carcinoma INTRODUCTION Metastatic disease to the skin can be difficult to diagnose clinically because it often mimics many infectious, inflammatory, and neoplastic skin conditions. Cutaneousmetastases can present as dermal or subcutaneous nodules, exophytic tumors resembling melanoma or nonmelanoma skin cancer, erythematous patches and plaques resemb...

OBJECTIVE The University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Scleroderma Clinical Trial Consortium GI Tract Instrument (UCLA SCTC GITI) was recently developed to measure gastrointestinal tract disease in systemic sclerosis (SSc). Our study assesses the internal consistency and validity of the instrument in a different population than was used in the original study. METHODS A sample of 113 con...

INTRODUCTION Anti-RNA polymerase III (RNAP III) antibodies are highly specific markers of scleroderma (systemic sclerosis, SSc) and associated with a rapidly progressing subset of SSc. The clinical presentation of anti-RNAP III positive patients, onset of Raynaud's phenomenon (RP) and SSc in unselected patients in a rheumatology clinic were evaluated. METHODS Autoantibodies in sera from 1,966...

OBJECTIVES Although digital ulcers (DUs) are common in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), prevalence estimates vary, and functional impact and pathophysiology have been relatively little studied. We investigated the point prevalence of all DUs (both digital-tip and extensor) in a cohort of patients with SSc, testing the hypothesis that both digital-tip and extensor ulcers are associated wi...