The following is a description of manifestations of systemic scleroderma (SSc) by body system in an estimated order of frequency. Severe fatigue, malaise, and some weight loss are very common ...

Skin changes on the fingers may be an aesthetic defect and a signal of a severe disease. Although scleroderma is rare, it is ...

In mild cases, scleroderma just affects the skin. But in severe forms, called systemic scleroderma, the disease spreads through other systems in the body and "can damage your blood vessels and ...

No cases of severe pulmonary hypertension were observed. Objective: Scleroderma is characterized by the presence of 3 predominant, yet almost mutually exclusive, antibodies: anticentromere ...

Delayed esophageal transit on scintigraphy among patients with SSc is linked to a more severe disease phenotype.

Episodes of Raynaud's phenomenon, a common feature of systemic sclerosis (SSc, also known as scleroderma), were more severe ...

Scleroderma is a rare disease in which a person's immune system begins to destroy normal, healthy tissues. (This is called an autoimmune disease.) As a result, connective tissue of the skin, lungs, ...

The actor, who died Sunday at age 65, was an "irreplaceable" part of the Scleroderma Research Foundation, says chairman Luke Evnin Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE ...