Scleroderma on the face can cause symptoms that may affect your appearance, including the texture, discoloration, and elasticity of your skin. Medications, facial exercises, and dermatological ...

The Very Early Diagnosis of Systemic Sclerosis (VEDOSS) criteria identify red flags as puffy fingers, abnormal nailfold capillaroscopy, and specific autoantibodies in patients with Raynaud's ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than 30% of patients with systemic sclerosis, mostly with diffuse cutaneous involvement, had an initial ...

The VEDOSS project has previously shown that 70% of patients with Raynaud's phenomenon and at least one red flag – systemic sclerosis (SSc)-specific antibodies, puffy fingers, or an SSc pattern on ...

Treating rare diseases can be complicated at the best of times, and it gets even more complicated when different patients with the same disease exhibit different symptoms. Now, researchers from Japan ...

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare autoimmune disease that can harden the skin, impair blood flow, and damage internal organs such as the lungs and kidneys. But no two patients experience the disease ...