Lipedema: A Painful Adipose Tissue Disorder [PDF]
, 2019 Lipedema is a painful fat disease of loose connective tissue usually misdiagnosed as lifestyle-induced obesity that affects ~10% of women of European descent as well as other populations. Lipedema is characterized by symmetric enlargement of the buttocks,
Al-Ghadban, Sara +2 more
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Malignancy in ankylosing spondylitis: a cross-sectional analysis of a large population database
BMC Rheumatology, 2022 Background Increased cancer-risk has been reported with rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus, but the risk is poorly studied in ankylosing spondylitis (AS).
Mohamad Bittar +3 more
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Undifferentiated connective tissue disease presenting with prevalent interstitial lung disease: Case report and review of literature [PDF]
, 2011 Undifferentiated connective tissue diseases (UCTDs) are clinical entities characterised by signs and symptoms suggestive of a systemic autoimmune disease, which do not fulfil the diagnostic criteria for a defined connective tissue disease.
Balestro, Elisabetta +7 more
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Use of Patterned Collagen Coated Slides to Study Normal and Scleroderma Lung Fibroblast Migration
Scientific Reports, 2017 Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a spreading fibrotic disease affecting the skin and internal organs. We aimed to model pathogenic fibroblast migration in SSc in order to identify enhancing factors, measure the effect of migrating cells on underlying ...
Bahja Ahmed Abdi +12 more
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Mixed connective tissue disease, undifferentiated connective tissue disease and overlap syndromes
Alʹmanah Kliničeskoj Mediciny, 2019 Systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis, inflammatory myopathy and rheumatoid arthritis are systemic connective tissue disorders which are characterized by heterogeneous clinical symptoms and variable course. To date, updated diagnostic criteria
R. T. Alekperov
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Automatic segmentation of CT images for ventral body composition analysis [PDF]
Medical Physics 2020, 2020 Purpose: Body composition is known to be associated with many diseases including diabetes, cancers and cardiovascular diseases. In this paper, we developed a fully automatic body tissue decomposition procedure to segment three major compartments that are related to body composition analysis - subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT), visceral adipose tissue ...
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Connective tissue anomalies in patients with spontaneous cervical artery dissection. [PDF]
, 2014 OBJECTIVE: To investigate the prevalence of connective tissue abnormalities in patients with spontaneous cervical artery dissections (sCeAD). METHODS: We systematically assessed clinically detectable signs of connective tissue aberration in a series of ...
A. Giossi +19 more
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Modulation of Fibrosis in Systemic Sclerosis by Nitric Oxide and Antioxidants
Cardiology Research and Practice, 2012 Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma: SSc) is a multisystem, connective tissue disease of unknown aetiology characterized by vascular dysfunction, autoimmunity, and enhanced fibroblast activity resulting in fibrosis of the skin, heart, and lungs, and ...
Audrey Dooley +2 more
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Mixed connective tissue disease
Современная ревматология, 2019 Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD), also known as Sharp's syndrome, is a rare systemic connective tissue disorder that characterized by a combination of some features of systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis ...
R. U. Shayakhmetova, L. P. Ananyeva
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Frequency Of Development Of Connective Tissue Disease In Statin-Users Versus Nonusers [PDF]
, 2013 Statins have pleiotropic properties that may affect the development of connective tissue diseases (CTD). The objective of this study was to compare the risk of CTD diagnoses in statin users and nonusers. This study was a propensity score-matched analysis
Battafarano, Daniel F. +4 more
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