Scleroderma affects approximately 300,000 people in the U.S., with about one-third developing systemic disease, which can ...

He explained that the autoimmune condition causes tissue to thicken. My scleroderma was also causing interstitial lung disease, which made it hard to breathe. My mom, who had come with me to the ...

But in severe forms, called systemic scleroderma, the disease spreads through other systems in the body and "can damage your blood vessels and internal organs, such as the heart, lungs and kidneys ...

The nurse can be very helpful to the patient and family by educating and reassuring them during the many tests needed to diagnose scleroderma pulmonary disease. The patient will be less anxious if ...

Additionally, scleroderma renal crisis and pulmonary hypertension lead to significant cardiac dysfunction secondary to damage in the kidney and lung. This report summarizes the recent advances to ...

Scleroderma is a rare disease in which a person's immune system begins to destroy normal, healthy tissues. (This is called an autoimmune disease.) As a result, connective tissue of the skin, lungs, ...

In some cases, it progresses slowly and is limited to the skin, while in others, it rapidly attacks internal organs such as ...

A brave father of three is using being busy as a weapon in a fight for his life against a rare, incurable disease that is gradually causing his lungs to fail. Scott Nell has a form of scleroderma ...

Delayed esophageal transit on scintigraphy among patients with SSc is linked to a more severe disease phenotype.