Vasculitides comprise a heterogeneous group of autoimmune disorders, occurring as primary or secondary to a broad variety of systemic infectious, malignant or connective tissue diseases. The latter ...

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EXTENSIVE clinical data have been accumulated during recent years that support the view that scleroderma is a systemic disease. In addition to cutaneous involvement, which remains the cardinal ...

Key Laboratory of Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (Beihang University), Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Innovation and Transformation of Advanced Medical Devices, Ministry of Industry and ...

Undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD) is a condition in which a patient's symptoms don't quite meet the "criteria" (the markers or indicators doctors use to make a diagnosis) of a ...

In fact, as many as a quarter of all patients seen by rheumatologists have UCTD. It does not mean that a doctor does not know what to call the condition, it just means that some or all of the clinical ...

Severe diffuse proliferation of loose connective tissue surrounded the osteoid trabeculae, many of which were partially or completely non-mineralized. Mineralized osteoid trabeculae showed osteoclasts ...

Elizabeth Chance, MD, a double board-certified facial plastic surgeon in Charlottesville, recently filmed a series of educational Instagram stories explaining the key differences between Dr. Levine’s ...

There is no cure for Marfan syndrome, but management of the associated symptoms can prolong and enhance the quality of a patient’s life. Marfan syndrome is a rare genetic disorder of the connective ...

Approximately 10% have very dense breasts. Breast density refers to the proportion of glandular and fibrous connective tissue relative to fatty tissue as seen on mammography. Dense breasts contain ...

unipd.it Interstitial lung diseases (ILDs), which can arise from a broad spectrum of distinct aetiologies, can manifest as a pulmonary complication of an underlying autoimmune and connective tissue ...