Acute retinal artery occlusion in systemic sclerosis: A rare manifestation of systemic sclerosis fibroproliferative vasculopathy

High frequency skin ultrasonography in systemic sclerosis

Background: Systemic sclerosis is an autoimmune connective tissue disorder which is characterised by cutaneous and internal organ fibrosis. Raynaud’s phenomenon is the earliest feature and may precede the onset of the disease by months to years. The heart, lungs, gastrointestinal tract, kidneys and other organs may be involved. Our aim was to evaluate skin thickness and echogenicity in systemic...

Colonic ulceration as an unusual manifestation of vasculopathy in systemic sclerosis.

Is familial Mediterranean fever a possible cofactor for Budd-Chiari syndrome? J Pediatr Gastr Nutr 2009;49:481–4. 9 Aksu G, Ozturk C, Kavakli K, Genel F, Kutukculer N. Hypercoagulability: interaction between inflammation and coagulation in familial Mediterranean fever. Clin Rheumatol 2007;26:366–70. 10 Demirel A, Celkan T, Kasapcopur O et al. Is familial Mediterranean fever a thrombotic disease...

Statins and the vasculopathy of systemic sclerosis: potential therapeutic agents?

It has been postulated that endothelial cell injury is the initiating event in the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis, causing attraction, attachment, migration and infiltration of activated T-cells and subsequent production of cytokines and growth factors. As a result of the action of these cytokines and growth factors, chemoattraction of fibroblasts into the vessel wall and transdifferentiati...

Systemic Sclerosis –

Systemic sclerosis.