Lung Involvement In Systemic Sclerosis
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Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a multisystem connective tissue disease of unknown etiology. Similar to other connective tissue diseases, SSc follows a chronic course, occurs more commonly in women, and is highly heterogeneous in its protean clinical manifestations. The hallmarks of SSc are autoimmunity and inflammation, functional and structural abnormalities in small blood vessels in multiple vascular beds, and progressive interstitial and vascular fibrosis in the skin and internal organs. Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) is classified as shown in Table I.
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