What's the difference between dermatosclerosis and scleroderma?
Dermatosclerosis
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Scleroderma
Definition:
(n.) A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.
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(1) Immunofluorescent staining for HLA-DR showed dermal positivity in 12 of 13 involved- and 9 of 13 uninvolved-skin biopsy specimens from scleroderma patients, compared with only 1 of 10 controls.
(2) In the German Democratic Republic, patients with scleroderma and history of long term silica exposure are recognized as patients with occupational disease even though pneumoconiosis is not clearly demonstrated on X-ray film.
(3) Type II includes the Sjögren's syndrome, rhumatoid arthritis, primary biliary cirrhosis, scleroderma and autoimmune thyroid disorders.
(4) Here we present a case of systemic scleroderma with unilateral enophthalmos.
(5) A patient with scleroderma of recent onset was found to have a carcinoma of the oesophagus.
(6) It is not influenced by previous soft tissue damage induced by linear scleroderma and may enable better monitoring of the effectiveness of proposed therapies.
(7) The pathologic findings in this new case were scleroderma-like skin atrophy, arteriosclerosis, and atrophy of the endocrine glands (including the genital organs).
(8) Two hundred and thirty-seven patients with systemic sclerosis were followed prospectively in a scleroderma clinic.
(9) She had photosensitive skin of early onset, hypertrichosis, and severe scleroderma-like lesions of the hands.
(10) This family constitutes the first record of the familial coexistence of the CRST syndrome with Sjögren's syndrome, and the second evidence of vertical inheritance of scleroderma.
(11) Scleroderma should be considered in the diagnostic evaluation of joint contractures.
(12) Methods are described that are used for the titration of antinuclear, anticentromere, and anti-Scl-70 antibodies in systemic scleroderma, systemic lupus erythematosus, and rheumatoid arthritis: indirect immunofluorescence with various antigenic substrates (sections of fresh-frozen rat liver and Hep-2 cell culture), counter-current immunoelectrophoresis, isolation of Scl-70 antigen.
(13) In vivo capillaroscopic examination was performed on patients with localized scleroderma to determine whether nailfold capillary abnormalities seen in systemic scleroderma (systemic sclerosis) were also present in the localized form.
(14) Fibromyalgia patients reported significantly higher levels of learned helplessness, assessed according to a rheumatology attitudes index (RAI), than patients with all other diseases, and scleroderma patients showed significantly lower RAI scores (P less than 0.05).
(15) Six scleroderma patients had abnormal indices, two of whom had high titre ribonucleoprotein antibody.
(16) These data may indicate that intrinsic upregulation of extracellular matrix genes in scleroderma fibroblasts utilizes a TGF beta dependent pathway.
(17) In a previous paper, we have found, at post-mortem examination of three cases of scleroderma, the oesophageal smooth muscle alterations already predicted by physiologists and reported by Treacy.
(18) Pulmonary involvement was significantly more frequent in nucleolar + homogeneous FANA positive patients; moreover, in two cases the same pattern proved to predict the development of diffuse scleroderma.
(19) Only pregnancies occurring before symptom onset in the scleroderma group were considered for analysis.
(20) The haemodynamic data recorded from one patient suggested that pericardial fibrosis in scleroderma may predispose to pericardial tamponade.