Background: Microcirculatory disorders including Raynaud’s phenomenon are one of the most important clinical symptoms systemic sclerosis (SS). Objectives: We found it appropriate to evaluate efficacy biofeedback (BFB) in complex therapy SS patients based on analysis nailfold capillaroscopy. Methods: The study included 70 patients. 94% we examined were women and 6% men. average age = 38±3,3 year...

OBJECTIVES To assess residual long-term microcirculation abnormalities by capillaroscopy, 15 years after retiring from occupational exposure to vinyl chloride monomer (VCM). DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Allier, one of the major areas of polyvinyl chloride production in France. PARTICIPANTS We screened 761 (97% men) retired workers exposed to chemical toxics. Exposure to chemicals...

Background Microvascular changes are one of the first obvious steps in numerous inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Nailfold video capillaroscopy (NFC) is an easy, reliable and safe method for evaluating peripheral microangiopathy. The objective of this study was to examine nailfold microcirculation in RA patients, assess morphological and structural changes quantitatively ...

1Research Laboratory and Academic Clinical Unit of Rheumatology, University of Genova; 2Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Florence, Italy. Maurizio Cutolo, MD; Marco Matucci Cerinic, MD, Professor. Please address correspondence to: Maurizio Cutolo, MD, Research Laboratory and Academic Clinical Unit of Rheumatology, University of Genova, Viale Benedetto XV, 6 – 1613...

Background Objectives: We evaluated nailfold capillaroscopy (NFC) of interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features (IPAF) and compared it that patients CTD-ILD idiopathic (IIP). Methods Patients newly diagnosed as ILD were using NFC. Baseline demographic, clinical, serological, high-resolution CT findings collected. NFC was semi-quantitatively scored six domains ranging from 0 to 18. In addit...