Because it is rare (the incidence rate for the systemic form is estimated to be 19 new cases per year per 1 million adults), many nurses and physicians have only read about scleroderma.

Systemic sclerosis, also termed scleroderma, is a multisystem connective tissue disease involving autoimmunity, inflammation, fibrosis and vasculopathy. The clinical presentation of systemic ...

Low doses of glucocorticoids added to immunosuppression yield no significant benefit for skin fibrosis in early diffuse ...

Health experts are urging people to test themselves for a condition that is 'as common as hayfever, yet few will have ever heard of it'. Around 10 million people in the UK today suffer with Raynaud’s ...

Type I interferon (IFN) score may effectively predict disease progression in limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis, with a ...

The odds of developing systemic lupus erythematosus or systemic sclerosis appear to significantly increase with the use of ...