Serviço de Reumatologia - Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Núcleo de Pesquisa em Inovação Terapêutica Suely Galdino (Nupit-SG)/ UFPE, Endereço: Av. Prof. Moraes Rego, 1235 - Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE, CEP: 50670-901, Brazil.
Serviço de Reumatologia - Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Núcleo de Pesquisa em Inovação Terapêutica Suely Galdino (Nupit-SG)/ UFPE, Endereço: Av. Prof. Moraes Rego, 1235 - Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE, CEP: 50670-901, Brazil. Electronic address: nara.gual@gmail.com.
Serviço de Reumatologia - Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Núcleo de Pesquisa em Inovação Terapêutica Suely Galdino (Nupit-SG)/ UFPE, Endereço: Av. Prof. Moraes Rego, 1235 - Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE, CEP: 50670-901, Brazil.
Serviço de Reumatologia - Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Núcleo de Pesquisa em Inovação Terapêutica Suely Galdino (Nupit-SG)/ UFPE, Endereço: Av. Prof. Moraes Rego, 1235 - Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE, CEP: 50670-901, Brazil.
Serviço de Reumatologia - Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Núcleo de Pesquisa em Inovação Terapêutica Suely Galdino (Nupit-SG)/ UFPE, Endereço: Av. Prof. Moraes Rego, 1235 - Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE, CEP: 50670-901, Brazil.
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Inovação Terapêutica (PPGIT)/ UFPE, Brazil; Núcleo de Pesquisa em Inovação Terapêutica - Sueli Galdino (Nupit-SG), Brazil.
KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, P.O. Box 230-80108, Kilifi, Kenya. gwarimwe@kemri-wellcome.org.
Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, NDM Research Building, Oxford, OX3 7FZ, UK. gwarimwe@kemri-wellcome.org.
Institute for Medical Microbiology and Virology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Johannisallee 30, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America.
Systemic sclerosis is a systemic connective tissue disease whose main pathophysiological mechanism is a progressive fibrosis of internal organs and skin leading to thickening and induration. Blood ves...
Scleroderma renal crisis (SRC) is a life-threatening complication of systemic sclerosis (SSc) with a mortality of 20% at 6 months. Once the leading cause of mortality in scleroderma (SSc), it remains ...
To describe systemic sclerosis (SSc) heart involvement in the ICU....
We retrospectively studied patients with previous diagnosis of SSc admitted to the ICU for acute cardiac dysfunction between 2012 and mid-2021....
9 female patients were included, mainly with diffuse SSc (n = 7, 78%). Six (67%) had digital ulcers. All but one patient complained about physical cardiac symptoms (n = 8, 89%), 5 (56%) had electrocar...
We report an uncommon and specific severe acute life-threatening cardiac dysfunction in SSc patients, which can be reversible but remains associated with a poor long-term prognosis, which can be rever...
Juvenile Scleroderma is a rare autoimmune disease of the connective tissue. Its concurrence with COVID-19 can lead to limb ischemia as both disease entities are pro-inflammatory and pro-thrombotic. To...
An adolescent with acute limb ischemia presented with a history of generalized hypo-and-hyperpigmented skin lesions and mild, non-productive cough. She tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on nasopharyngeal...
There is evolving knowledge about the interplay of COVID-19 hyperinflammatory state and rheumatologic disorders. COVID-19 is thought to exacerbate cutaneous manifestations of autoimmune disorders via ...
Scleroderma renal crisis (SRC) is a rare and severe manifestation of systemic sclerosis (SSc). Although it is well documented that Black patients with SSc have worse morbidity and mortality than non-B...
Using the electronic health record of the US Military Health System, we conducted a comprehensive chart review of each patient with SSc from 2005 to 2016. The final study cohort was comprised of 31 SR...
Of 353 patients, 294 had identifiable race (79 Black, 215 non-Black). Thirteen of 79 Black patients (16.5%) versus 16 of 215 (7.4%) non-Black patients developed SRC (P = 0.02). On adjusted analysis, B...
Black race was independently associated with a higher risk of future SRC. Further studies are needed to elucidate the mechanisms that underlie this important association....
Scleroderma is a rare complication in taxanes therapy. Although individual cases of taxanes-induced scleroderma have been reported, the clinical manifestation and treatment outcomes were reviewed and ...
A PubMed literature review on published cases of taxanes-induced scleroderma up until April 2022 was included for analysis....
The search identified 27 patients with adequate information for analysis. Of the 28 patients, including the one presented here, 22 were female. Peripheral edema was the most common symptom in all but ...
Taxanes-induced scleroderma is different from idiopathic scleroderma. Physicians should be aware of this condition in order to provide early diagnosis and apply appropriate management in order to avoi...
Juvenile localized scleroderma (LS) and systemic sclerosis (SSc) are rare pediatric conditions often associated with severe morbidities. Delays in diagnosis are common, increasing the risk for permane...
In this cross-sectional study, caregivers of juvenile LS or SSc patients were recruited from a virtual family scleroderma educational conference and a juvenile scleroderma online interest group. The s...
The response rate was 61% (73/120), with 38 parents of LS patients and 31 parents of SSc patients. Most patients were female (80%) and over half were non-Hispanic white (55%). Most families had at lea...
Caregivers of children with LS or SSc reported numerous common barriers to the diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing care of juvenile scleroderma. The major problem highlighted was the lack of knowledge o...
The purpose of this study was to assess the skin involvement in systemic scleroderma patients (SSc) with 2D-Shear Wave Elastography (2D-SWE) and to review the corelation between skin elasticity and pu...
Thirty SSc patients and 30 controls were examined using 2D-SWE. The demographics matched both groups. B-mode ultrasound (US) and 2D-SWE assessed skin thickness and elastography from the ventral side o...
US parameter values (skin thickness, median kPa, median m/s) were higher in the SSc patient group (1.78 ± 0.36 mm, 22.15 ± 16.26, 2.60 ± 0.82, respectively) compared to the control group (1.55 ± 0.2 m...
2D-SWE is a promising non-invasive method to evaluate skin involvement in SSc patient group. For pulmonary involvement we need more data with bigger patient groups....
The spectrum of kidney involvement in systemic sclerosis (SSc) includes scleroderma renal crisis, widely recognized as the most severe renal-vascular complication, but also several forms of chronic re...
Systemic sclerosis is a complex multisystem connective tissue disease resulting in fibrosis of the skin and internal organs. Exposure to corticosteroids can trigger scleroderma renal crisis, a life-th...