نتایج جستجو برای: systemic sclerosis (ssc)

تعداد نتایج: 234343  

Amin Hessam, Elham Rajaei, Karim Mowla, Zeinab Deris Zayeri,

Background: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune connective tissue disease characterized by vasculopathy and excessive collagen deposition in the skin and internal organs. Based on the skin damage we divide the patients into two groups: limited and diffuse SSc. In restricted type, the thickness of the skin is limited in the face and distal parts of the elbows and knees, with less involveme...

2012
Milind Y Nadkar Nayan K Desai

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a multisystem connective tissue disease of unknown etiology. Similar to other connective tissue diseases, SSc follows a chronic course, occurs more commonly in women, and is highly heterogeneous in its protean clinical manifestations. The hallmarks of SSc are autoimmunity and inflammation, functional and structural abnormalities in small blood vessels in multiple vas...

Journal: :gastroenterology and hepatology from bed to bench 0
roberto assandri humanitas clinical and research center marta monari alessandro montanelli

aim : we described two case reports of aih/ssc overlap syndrome and reviewed literatures regarding this issue.   background : aih is a chronic hepatitis of unknown aetiology characterized by continuing hepatocellular necrosis and inflammation. aih overlap syndromes have been reported with other autoimmune diseases. patients and methods : according to the classification criteria for ssc, we cond...

Journal: :Advances in medical sciences 2007
M Sierakowska S Sierakowski J Lewko B Jankowiak K Kowalczuk E Krajewska-Kułak

UNLABELLED Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a chronic autoimmune disease connective tissue and one of the most common collagen diseases. There are several clinical types of scleroderma which differ in their course, possible complications and prognosis. The most characteristic form SSc is limited and diffuse systemic sclerosis. The SSc is characterized by the progressive fibrosis of the skin and inte...

2012
G Mura Krishna M Bhat A Pisano G Licci MG Carta

INTRODUCTION Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare conjunctive tissue disorder characterized by fibrosis of the skin and internal organs, and vascular obliteration phenomena. Patients with SSc often experience elevated symptoms of psychological distress, determined by the disfiguration, the pain, the fatigue sensation, and the difficult in daily life occupations. The characteristics of the disease...

Journal: :The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India 2008
Uma Kumar R Ramteke R Yadav M Ramam Rohini Handa A Kumar

INTRODUCTION Development of pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH) worsens the prognosis of systemic sclerosis (SSc). There is paucity of data on PAH in patients with SSc in India. We have attempted to determine the prevalence and predictors of pulmonary artery hypertension in systemic sclerosis using noninvasive cardiopulmonary evaluation. OBJECTIVES (1) To study the prevalence of PAH in SSc (2...

عرفانی‌مقدم, نیره, پورمقیم, هادی,

The aim of this study was test a new developed severity for individual organ system involvment in 40 patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc, scleroderma). In this study used from a new developed disease severity scale published by an international study group for determination of severity grade in 9 organ system, general, skin, peripheral vascular, joint/tendon, skeletal muscle, gaster...

2013
Thomas Quéméneur Luc Mouthon Patrice Cacoub Olivier Meyer Ulrique Michon-Pasturel Philippe Vanhille Pierre-Yves Hatron Loïc Guillevin Eric Hachulla

Although the presence of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) has been reported in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), the association of SSc and systemic vasculitis has rarely been described. We obtained information on cases of systemic vasculitis associated with SSc in France from the French Vasculitis Study Group and all members of the French Research Group on Systemic Sclerosis....

2017
Ilker Yagci Ozge Kenis-Coskun Tugba Ozsoy Gulsen Ozen Haner Direskeneli

BACKGROUND Systemic sclerosis can affect peripheral nerves, but the extent and the nature of this involvement are not well defined. The aim of this study is to compare the sonoelastrographic measurements of median nerves in systemic sclerosis (SSC), idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) and healthy individuals. METHODS The clinical, electrophysiological and ultrasonographic assessments were...

2016
Gianluca Bagnato William Neal Roberts Davide Sciortino Donatella Sangari Santa Cirmi Roneka L. Ravenell Michele Navarra Gianfilippo Bagnato Sebastiano Gangemi

BACKGROUND Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a complex autoimmune disease characterized by vascular alterations and autoimmune activation leading to widespread organ fibrosis. At the early stage of disease when organ involvement and extent of disease are emerging, mast cells may have some role, as implied by both symptoms and histologic evidence. CASE PRESENTATION A female patient diagnosed with cu...

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