How Scleroderma Affects the Lungs

In this video from the Greater Chicago Chapter of the Scleroderma Foundation, we see a presentation from the Scleroderma Patient Education Conference, held on October 15, 2016 in Chicago.

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Dr. Dematte from the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, explains how scleroderma can affect the lungs, resulting in different pulmonary conditions. She talks about interstitial lung disease, aspiration lung injury, and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and how patients are more at risk of developing a scleroderma-related chronic lung disease.

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