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Epigenome-Wide Comparative Study Reveals Key Differences Between Mixed Connective Tissue Disease and Related Systemic Autoimmune Diseases

Frontiers in Immunology, 2019
Mixed Connective Tissue Disease (MCTD) is a rare complex systemic autoimmune disease (SAD) characterized by the presence of increased levels of anti-U1 ribonucleoprotein autoantibodies and signs and symptoms that resemble other SADs such as systemic ...
E. Carnero-Montoro, G. Barturen, E. Povedano, M. Kerick, M. Martínez-Bueno, E. Ballestar, Javier Martín, M. Teruel, M. Alarcón-Riquelme   +8 more
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Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome and Azathioprine [PDF]

, 2019
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a rare syndrome that presents with neurological manifestations, often associated with arterial hypertension.
Corte-Real, A, Vilas-Boas, S
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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, O M, Folomeeva, S M, Ivanova, A I, Savorovskiĭ, M M, Ivanova   +4 more
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An autopsy study of a familial oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) with distal spread and neurogenic involvement [PDF]

, 1981
An 81-year-old man from a family with a history of oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) involving 6 members over 4 generations is described. The patient first noted drooping of his eyelids at the age of 65.
Aarli, Adams, Amyot, Barbeau, Bosch, Bray, Campanella, Cohen, Cox, Coërs, Croft, Direkze, Dutil, Fried, Fuchs, Goto, Graef von, Graf, Hartmann, Hayes, Julien, Kearns, Kiloh, Krause, Lakin, Lees, Lewis, Liversedge, Lundberg, Man, Maningand, Mater, Matsunaga, Murphy, Myrianthopoulos, Nicolaissen, Peterman, Radu, Rebeiz, Roberts, Satoyoshi, Saucier, Schmitt, Schmitt, Schotland, Schwarz, Szobar, Taylor, Victor, Zellweger   +49 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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Systemic sclerosis: current views of its pathogenesis. [PDF]

, 2003
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disorder of unknown etiology characterized by severe and often progressive cutaneous and visceral fibrosis, pronounced alterations in the microvasculature, and numerous cellular and humoral immune abnormalities ...
Derk, Chris T., Jimenez, Sergio A.
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The role of nailfold capillaroscopy in interstitial lung diseases - Can it differentiate idiopathic cases from collagen tissue disease associated interstitial lung diseases? [PDF]

, 2015
Introduction: Nailfold capillaroscopy (NFC) is a non-invasive diagnostic test that is mostly used for early diagnosis of collagen tissue diseases (CTDs). We aimed to evaluate whether NFC findings could be a clue for discriminating idiopathic interstitial
Altınışık, Göksel, Balkarli, A., Çakmakçi Karadoğan, D., Çobankara, Veli, Önal, Özgür   +4 more
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Mixed connective tissue disease: state of the art on clinical practice guidelines

RMD Open, 2018
Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is a complex overlap disease with features of different autoimmune connective tissue diseases (CTDs) namely systemic sclerosis, poly/dermatomyositis and systemic lupus erythematous in patients with antibodies ...
B. Chaigne, C. Scirè, R. Talarico, T. Alexander, Z. Amoura, T. Avčin, L. Beretta, A. Doria, A. Guffroy, V. Guimarães, E. Hachulla, T. Krieg, D. Launay, G. Lepri, P. Moinzadeh, U. Müller-Ladner, S. Rednic, A. Rodrigues, S. Tas, R. V. van Vollenhoven, A. Vieira, S. Bombardieri, J. Fonseca, I. Galetti, Matthias Schneider, V. Smith, M. Cutolo, M. Mosca, R. Fischer-Betz   +28 more
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Chronic relapsing neutrophilic meningitis as the sole manifestation of nocardiosis in a patient with mixed connective tissue disease

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, Erin K. Threlfall, Michael Philip Baldassari, Lawrence J. Livornese, Jr.   +3 more
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Angiogenic and angiostatic factors in renal scleroderma-associated vasculopathy [PDF]

, 2017
BACKGROUND: The angiogenesis in systemic sclerosis (SSc) is impaired. An imbalance of pro-angiogenic factors and angiogenesis inhibitors has been implicated in the progression of peripheral microvascular damage, defective vascular repair and fibrosis ...
Afeltra, Antonella M. Vittoria, Amoroso, Antonio, Barbano, Biagio, Cianci, Rosario, Gigante, Antonietta, Margiotta, Domenico, Navarini, Luca, Rosato, Edoardo   +7 more
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