Q: My son's hands started to swell more than a year ago, then his fingers and forearms got real hard. Then the skin around his mouth stated to wrinkle. After that he started to have difficulty ...

AMSTERDAM — For patients with diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis, an autoimmune disease for which there are few treatment options, lenabasum (JBT-101, Corbus Pharmaceuticals) shows potential, new ...

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Q. My sister has been diagnosed with scleroderma. She is in severe pain and swollen so badly she can't get up or down without help. Her doctor is treating her with medication so it won't attack her ...

Following the 2017 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Annual Meeting—held in San Diego, California, November 3-8—Medscape spoke with Hospital for Special Surgery rheumatologists Dr Robert F.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nearly 10% of patients with systemic sclerosis had systemic sclerosis sine scleroderma, a subtype without skin ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients showed no difference in skin fibrosis whether they were given low-dose oral glucocorticoids or not. One ...

Localized scleroderma, as the term denotes, is localized to the skin on the hands and face. It is characterized by slow progression and rarely transforms to the systemic type. Localized scleroderma is ...

Q: My daughter, who is 14-years-old, was diagnosed with localized scleroderma about three years ago, and I am finding out that not much is known on this disease. Could you tell be about it? Does it ...

Scientists are baffled as to what could be causing scleroderma and there are studies undertaken to understand the causes. Genes that could be playing the underlying role are being probed. In this ...