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Journal of the American Medical Association, 1889 Death and mortification of a member of the living body, without external injury, were formerly classified under the one head of spontaneous gangrene and considered mysterious visitations. It was thought obstructions to the circulation might be the cause of these strange conditions, and on the other hand, Quesnay (1749) was the first to suggest that ...
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Italian Journal of Medicine, 2013 Introduction: The term scleroderma derives from the Greek words skleros, which means hard, and derma, which means skin. It refers to an acquired systemic inflammatory disease of the connective tissue –also known as systemic sclerosis (SSc)– characterized
Domenico Galasso +2 more
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Immune myopathies with perimysial pathology: Clinical and laboratory features [PDF]
, 2018 ObjectiveImmune myopathies with perimysial pathology (IMPP) have a combination of damage to perimysial connective tissue and muscle fiber necrosis, more prominent near the perimysium.
Bucelli, Robert C, Pestronk, Alan
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Case Reports in Gastroenterology, 2012 Esophageal sclerosis is the most common visceral manifestation of systemic sclerosis, resulting in impaired esophageal clearance and retention of ingested food; in addition, co-existence of lung fibrosis with esophageal scleroderma is not uncommon.
Charalampos Seretis +8 more
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Systemic lupus erythematosus and Raynaud's phenomenon [PDF]
Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2015 : BACKGROUND: Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus seem to belong to different serological and clinical subgroups of the disease. Genetic background can cause the appearance of these subgroups.
Flavia Emilie Heimovski +2 more
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Eosinophilic fasciitis (Shulman's disease): review and comparative evaluation of seven patients. [PDF]
, 2019 OBJECTIVES: Eosinophilic fasciitis (EF) was described in 1974 by Shulman as a rare fibrosing connective tissue disease of unknown etiology. An undetermined trigger is thought to lead to the degranulation of eosinophils that interact with fibroblasts and
Cimbron, M +3 more
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Revista Brasileira de Reumatologia, 2012 OBJETIVO: Avaliar a ação do medicamento inibidor do receptor de leucotrieno CysLT1 (montelucaste) nas alterações vasculares das mãos em pacientes com fenômeno de Raynaud.
Mario Newton Leitão de Azevedo +6 more
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Case Reports in Rheumatology, 2023 Antisynthetase syndrome is a rare autoimmune disease within the subset of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. The diagnostic criteria include the presence of an aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase antibody, and typical clinical findings, including myositis ...
Anusha Vege, Jesse Beery, Areeba Kara
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Granulomatous fasciitis followed by morphea profunda: Is granulomatous fasciitis part of a spectrum of deep morphea? A case report and review of the literature. [PDF]
, 2018 Although eosinophilic fasciitis is known to be part of the deep morphea spectrum, this first report of the coexistence of granulomatous fasciitis and morphea profunda suggests that granulomatous fasciitis may also be a part of the spectrum of deep ...
Christensen, Angie +5 more
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Jornal Vascular Brasileiro, 2007 CONTEXTO: A simpatectomia ainda encontra indicação no tratamento de várias doenças, tais como a insuficiência arterial periférica crônica aterosclerótica grau IV (Fontaine) sem condições de revascularização, úlceras hipertensivas e o fenômeno de Raynaud ...
Wander Eduardo Sardinha +4 more
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