Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Rheumatologists are likely to be at the “forefront” of diagnosing scleroderma skin disorders and other ...

Scleroderma is a rare autoimmune disease involving an overproduction of the protein collagen. Linear scleroderma usually begins as a streak of hardened, waxy, discolored skin on the forehead, an arm, ...

Researchers found a unique immune cell plays a key role in the chronic inflammation and scarring in the lungs and skin of people with scleroderma, or systemic sclerosis. After injecting mice with ...

CARLSBAD, California — In 2003, researchers asked 303 patients with systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) what bothered them most about their disease from an aesthetic standpoint: Orofacial features, such ...

Scleroderma is an autoimmune condition that causes the skin to become tight and hard. This can change facial appearance, such as the mouth becoming smaller, and affect internal organs. With ...

Detection of certain auto-antibodies flagged patients with scleroderma (also known as systemic sclerosis) who were especially likely to develop pulmonary hypertension over long-term follow-up, a ...

Systemic sclerosis -- or scleroderma that affects the skin and internal organs -, is one of the rarest autoimmune diseases, affecting roughly 100,000 people (primarily women) in the United ...

Two new studies led by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) have uncovered key biological mechanisms driving systemic sclerosis (SSc), or scleroderma – a rare and often devastating ...

Caroline Graettinger, left, and Taitia Shelow, both of Cecil Township, have been diagnosed with scleroderma, a rare autoimmune disease that causes hardening and thickening of the skin and other organs ...