scleroderma in English

noun
1
a chronic hardening and contraction of the skin and connective tissue, either locally or throughout the body.
Diseases as disparate as scleroderma , cystic fibrosis, kyphoscoliosis, sleep apnea, and sickle cell disease were found to have shared consequences in the pulmonary circulation.

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1. Scleroderma.

2. Some people have a type of scleroderma called Crest syndrome (or limited scleroderma)

3. • autoimmune diseases-e.g., vitiligo, scleroderma, lupus, and alopecia areata;

4. It could be anything from scleroderma to Churg-Strauss.

5. • Connective-tissue disease: systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, acute rheumatic fever

6. This wavelength region is most efficient for the treatment of morphea or scleroderma.

7. Disabling pansclerotic morphea of childhood is the most severe variant of localized scleroderma.

8. You don't want it to be scleroderma because that means he's going to die.

9. A single super-sized cyst ruled out a diffuse process, like scleroderma or lupus.

10. There are many types of Connective tissue disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and scleroderma

11. The addition of procollagen peptides to the culture medium of scleroderma fibroblasts almost normalized the collagen synthesis.

12. SCLERODERMA —meaning “hard skin”— is a word used to describe diseases that afflict an estimated 2.5 million people worldwide.

13. Examples of Connective tissue diseases include rheumatoid arthritis , lupus , polymyositis / dermatomyositis , Churg-Strauss syndrome , scleroderma , and Marfan syndrome .

14. Ainhum has been much confused with other diseases such as leprosy, diabetic gangrene, syringomyelia, scleroderma or Vohwinkel syndrome

15. The type most often seen in children is localized scleroderma, which mainly involves a hardening of the skin tissues.

16. Similarly, Antinuclear antibodies can be present in patients with scleroderma, mixed connective tissue disease, and dermatomyositis or polymyositis

17. They had normal oral glucose tolerance tests and the patient with scleroderma had an elevated uric acid level.

18. Localized forms of scleroderma, such as morphea, which do not involve organ complications, should be differentiated from systemic sclerosis.

19. To report a case of morphea (localized scleroderma) in a patient following breast cancer therapy and to summarize the current literature.

20. Nine cases of scleroderma (systemic sclerosis 7, morphea 2) and 4 cases of dermatomyositis, all in the active phase, were examined.

21. Ainhum has been much confused with similar constrictions caused by other diseases such as leprosy, diabetic gangrene, syringomyelia, scleroderma or Vohwinkel syndrome.

22. Ainhum has been much confused with similar constrictions caused by other diseases such as leprosy, diabetic gangrene, syringomyelia, scleroderma or Vohwinkel syndrome.

23. Localized scleroderma or morphea is a sclerosing connective tissue disease of the skin, which may affect underlying tissues such as subcutis, muscle and bone.

24. I learned of one woman with scleroderma, an autoimmune connective tissue disease, who was told for years that it was all in her head.

25. I still live with pain, and I have a number of ailments that are associated with scleroderma. These include ulcers, lung fibrosis, and severe heartburn.

26. This enzymatic damage was confirmed by the direct determination on the liver in scleroderma but it was not accompanied either by an increase of the tryptophanpyrrolase activity or by histamine fast achlorhydria.

27. Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE inhibitors) are a group of medicines that are mainly used to treat certain heart and kidney conditions; however, they may be used in the management of other conditions such as migraine and scleroderma.

28. Mixed Connective tissue disease (MCTD) is a rare autoimmune disorder that is characterized by features commonly seen in three different Connective tissue disorders: systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, and polymyositis.Some affected people may also have symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis

29. Bronchiectasis in the lower lungs to a greater extent than the degree of perceived fibrosis and honeycombing is suggestive of a nonspecific interstitial pneumonia pattern and is often seen in patients with scleroderma ; both traction resulting from interstitial fibrosis and chronic aspiration likely contribute to this pattern of Bronchiectasis.

30. Besides the typical lupus forms, nonspecific skin lesions are also observed such as dermal mucinosis, acneiform skin lesions, different variants of livedo, necrotizing vasculitis with ulcers, purpura, urticaria vasculitis, neutrophilic dermatosis, hyperpigmentation, hair and nail changes as well as overlap syndromes with erythema multiforme, scleroderma, Sjögren syndrome, Raynaud phenomenon, lichen planus, bullous pemphigoid und psoriasis.

31. Whereas, in the past it was recognized that vinyl chloride monomer was capable of giving rise only to the generally reversible disease known as "occupational acro-osteolysis" ; whereas more recent evidence from epidemiological studies and animal experimentation indicates that prolonged and/or repeated exposure to high concentrations of vinyl chloride monomer in the atmosphere may give rise to a "vinyl chloride monomer" syndrome encompassing, in addition to occupational acro-osteolysis, the skin disease scleroderma and liver disorders;