Scleroderma renal crisis (SRC) is rare — it affects 5–15% of patients, according to studies published in the past 20 years; however, a 2015 case series suggests that the incidence of SRC has decreased ...

If you have scleroderma, it can take time to get the diagnosis. Scleroderma is rare, and the signs and symptoms are similar to many other diseases. Doctors who most commonly diagnose scleroderma are ...

Planning to have a baby can be an exciting time in life. But if you have systemic sclerosis, or scleroderma, the excitement can be tempered by concerns related to your disease: Will scleroderma affect ...

Juvenile scleroderma causes hardening and tightening of the skin. Scleroderma, which literally means “hard skin,” is a rare disease that affects the skin and connective tissue (fibers that provide the ...

Scleroderma is rare. The Scleroderma Foundation estimates that about 300,000 people in the United States have some type of scleroderma. The following explains who has a higher risk of developing ...

Many scleroderma symptoms resemble the symptoms of a number of conditions, which means it can take longer to find out if scleroderma is the cause or which of the different types of scleroderma is ...

Scleroderma is a poorly understood illness that causes widespread hardening of the skin, especially on the hands and face. It also can damage the lungs, heart, kidneys, digestive tract, muscles and ...

An autoimmune disease is an immune system disorder in which our immune system starts attacking the very body it is supposed to protect. There are more than 100 types of autoimmune diseases, each with ...

A woman in her 70s with a past history of breast cancer in remission presented with several months of dyspnoea, skin tightness and Raynaud’s phenomenon. Physical examination was significant for ...

Nailfold capillaroscopy is a non-invasive imaging technique for morphological assessment of capillaries in the nailfold area and represents a key method for differentiation of primary and secondary ...

Objectives To observe if capillary patterns in childhood-onset SLE (cSLE) change over time and find associations between a capillary scleroderma pattern with disease activity, damage or ...