The Scleroderma Education Project recently released guidelines for patients and doctors wishing to know more about therapeutic plasma exchange…
Articles by Magdalena Kegel
A woman with metastatic colorectal cancer treated with the chemotherapy drug Xeloda (capecitabine) developed diffuse scleroderma — a condition never…
A study showed the effectiveness of hydrogen sulfide in a mouse model of scleroderma, and researchers in China suggest that the compound…
Scleroderma patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) benefit equally well from treatment with Adempas (riociguat) as PAH patients with other…
A direct comparison of Cytoxan (Cyclophosphamide) and Cellcept (mycophenolate mofetil) showed that the drugs are equally effective in stabilizing, and…
A case study, describing the successful treatment of a scleroderma patient with repeated therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) for more than…
Iloprost (brand name, Ventavis) in combination with bosentan (Tracleer) can improve blood flow in microscopic vessels called capillaries in the hands and feet of…
The pharmaceutical company iBio, which focuses on the clinical development of drugs for systemic sclerosis and other fibrotic diseases,…
Low levels of female sex hormones called estrogens might drive disease processes leading to skin fibrosis in scleroderma, according to…
An easy-to-install heart monitor detects potentially deadly heart arrhythmias in patients with scleroderma without any known heart disease, according to a…