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Toxics, 2021 Aluminum is in our water and food, and is used as an adjuvant in vaccines. About 40% of the ingested dose accumulates within the intestinal mucosa, making the gut the main target of inflammation and autoimmunity; about 1% accumulates in the skeletal ...
Aristo Vojdani
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A Histopathological Study of Pulmonary Hypertension in Connective Tissue Disease
Allergology International, 2011 Connective tissue diseases (CTD), such as systemic sclerosis (SSc), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD), develop pulmonary hypertension (PH).
Nobuhito Sasaki +2 more
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Association study between immune-related miRNAs and mixed connective tissue disease
Arthritis Research & Therapy, 2021 Background Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is a rare condition that is distinguished by the presence of specific U1-RNP antibodies. Information about its etiopathology and diagnostics is still unclear.
Barbara Stypińska +4 more
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Mixed connective tissue disease: Not always an obvious diagnosis
Clinical Case Reports, 2020 Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is characterized by a mixture of clinical features. The initial presentation is often incomplete, and the features of MCTD usually develop as the disease evolves.
Safa Rahmouni +5 more
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Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
Southern Medical Journal, 1982 Mixed connective tissue disease is characterized by overlapping features of classic connective tissue diseases and the presence of antibodies to ribonucleoprotein. Placement of this disorder among the classic disorders still remains controversial. The clinical features, prognosis, and therapeutic features of this syndrome are discussed in this report.
V A, Nasonova +4 more
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IDCases, 2022 We describe a rare case of a patient with mixed connective tissue disease maintained on chronic oral corticosteroids, who was hospitalized on five occasions over five consecutive months due to persistent relapsing neutrophilic meningitis caused by ...
M. Anthony Albornoz +3 more
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Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
Internal Medicine, 1999 Mixed connective tissue disease deserves to be a distinct disease entity due to the persistent citation of this disease in the literature since the original description by Sharp in 1972, in spite of the presence of several criticisms against the independency of this disease.
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Urology Case Reports, 2022 Idiopathic Retroperitoneal fibrosis (RPF) is a fibro-inflammatory disease. In patients with known mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) it has rarely been described. Our case illustrates a unique presentation of RPF in a patient with MCTD.
Thomas Neerhut +3 more
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Lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia in a patient with mixed connective tissue disease – A case report
Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2018 Lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia (LIP) is an uncommon interstitial lung disease that is characterized by an interstitial infiltrate of lymphoplasmacytic cells.
Chin-Wei Kuo +3 more
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Immunity, Inflammation and Disease, 2019 Objective The present study aimed to investigate progranulin autoantibodies in systemic sclerosis and autoimmune connective tissue disorders. Progranulin is a physiologic tumor necrosis factor (TNF) antagonist. Progranulin antibodies decrease progranulin
Philipp Klemm +7 more
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