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Localized Scleroderma, Systemic Sclerosis and Cardiovascular Risk: A Danish Nationwide Cohort Study
Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2017 Recent findings indicate that patients with systemic sclerosis have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. To determine whether patients with systemic sclerosis or localized scleroderma are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease, a cohort ...
Jeanette Halskou Hesselvig +5 more
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Early nurturing experiences, self-compassion, hyperarousal and scleroderma the way we relate to ourselves may determine disease progression [PDF]
, 2016 <p>Scleroderma is a rare, painful and complex autoimmune connective tissue disease that can lead to death. The physiology of symptom onset and progression and the psychological aspects of living with this chronic disease have been studied fairly ...
Hicks, Richard E., Kearney, Karen
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Systemic sclerosis sine scleroderma [PDF]
Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine, 2017 Systemic sclerosis is a rare generalized disease with scleroderma, i.e. skin thickening as one of the most common symptoms. The disease has 2 main subsets, diffuse and limited forms. The subset known as systemic sclerosis sine scleroderma (ssSSc) is a very rare subset characterized by the total or partial absence of cutaneous manifestations of systemic
Magdalena Kopeć-Mędrek +1 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 +7 more
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Pathophysiology of systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)
The Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 2022 AbstractSystemic sclerosis (scleroderma) is an autoimmune‐triggered chronic fibrosing disease that affects the skin and many other organs. Its pathophysiology is complex and involves an early endothelial damage, an inflammatory infiltrate and a resulting fibrotic reaction.
Ann‐Helen Rosendahl +2 more
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SCLERODERMA NEPHROPATHY: UNSOLVED PROBLEMS
Juvenis Scientia, 2021 Kidney injury is a common pathology in the group of patients with systemic sclerosis. At least half of the patients show histological signs of it. Acute condition is known as scleroderma renal crisis.
I. E. Bulavko +3 more
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The Immune Microenvironment: New Therapeutic Implications in Organ Fibrosis
Advanced Science, EarlyView.This review summarizes recent advances in understanding the immune microenvironment's role in fibrosis, focusing on phenotypic/functional alterations of immune cells and their dynamic interactions with other cellular constituents within tissues. The authors further explore therapeutic opportunities and challenges in targeting immune microenvironment ...
Xiangqi Chen +6 more
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Современная ревматология, 2013 Systemic connective tissue diseases, systemic scleroderma in particular, constitute a group of diseases in which vascular disorders underlying diverse clinical manifestations are one of the pathogenetic components.
Aleksandr Vitalyevich Volkov +1 more
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Central retinal vein occlusion: A patient with systemic sclerosis [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2016 Introduction. Scleroderma (systemic sclerosis) is a severe chronic connective tissue disease, which results in involvement of numerous internal organs.
Karadžić Jelena +2 more
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A Systems-Theoretical Formalization of Closed Systems [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 There is a lack of formalism for some key foundational concepts in systems engineering. One of the most recently acknowledged deficits is the inadequacy of systems engineering practices for engineering intelligent systems. In our previous works, we proposed that closed systems precepts could be used to accomplish a required paradigm shift for the ...
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