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Accurately determining functional impairment of the respiratory system of scleroderma patients is essential to helping their recovery from symptoms. It is especially important to scleroderma patients with interstitial lung disease and pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with their scleroderma, as their lung function is typically much worse than unaffected scleroderma patients.

Fatigue defined as “profound,” “debilitating,” and “preventing autoimmune disease (AD) patients from doing routine tasks. Fatigue affects patients’ mental and emotional well-being and their ability to work. And while most patients with autoimmune disease often discussed their fatigue with their physicians, many have not been prescribed treatment for the symptom. These were…

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Tsinghua University in China recently published in the journal Science Advances that a specific small molecule is capable of triggering an immune response, having potential biomedical applications for treating diseases such as Scleroderma. The study is entitled “…

In a new study entitled “Subclinical atherosclerosis and peripheral vascular disease in systemic sclerosis patients: Relation to potential risk factors,” authors suggest that patients with Systemic sclerosis may have increased risk of developing subclinical atherosclerotic macro vascular disease. The team highlights that further research is necessary to tackle both…

A new clinical trial on Systemic Sclerosis (also known as Scleroderma) is now recruiting participants – adult patients (at least 18 years old) with a confirmed diagnosis of systemic sclerosis (SSc), as defined by the American College of Rheumatology criteria — who are willing to participate (the study…

In a recent study published in the journal Arthritis Research & Therapy, a research team from the Yonsei University College of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea found that patients with Raynaud’s phenomenon (RP) met 2013 American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism criteria for systemic sclerosis…

The European Commission has granted late stage cell therapy company Cytori Therapeutics, Inc.’s ECCS-50 cellular therapy the designation of orphan medicinal product for the treatment of scleroderma. The decision, which was made due to positive references from the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products, represents the first time an…

A study recently published in the on-line journal Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology is challenging the clinical assumptions that morphea and systemic sclerosis (SSc) should be considered the part of the same disease spectrum.  The study, entitled, “Prospective evaluation of frequency of signs of systemic sclerosis…

Results from a recent study published in the journal The Egyptian Rheumatologist provide new evidence of inner ear involvement in Systemic sclerosis (SSc) causing audiovestibular abnormalities. Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune connective tissue disease characterized by fibrosis mainly in the skin, vasculopathy with…

A recent Case Report entitled “Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome as Presenting Form of Very Early Systemic Sclerosis,” describes a rare case of a patient with Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) caused by arterial hypertension and very early systemic sclerosis (SSc). The report is published in…