autoimmune connective tissue diseases
ANTI- ANNEXIN 1 ANTIBODIES CORRELATION BETWEEN ANTIBODIES LEVEL AND DISEASE ACTIVITY IN SOME AUTOIMMUNE CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES
... with autoimmune connective tissue ...these diseases and could have a prognostic capacity in some autoimmune connective tissue ...
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A Clinical Study of Autoimmune Connective Tissue Diseases and Utility of Antinuclear Antibody Testing in Diagnosis, Clinical Correlation and Disease Monitoring
... OF AUTOIMMUNE CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES AND UTILITY OF ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY TESTING IN DIAGNOSIS, CLINICAL CORRELATION AND DISEASE MONITORING” is done by me at the Department of ...
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Renal involvement in autoimmune connective tissue diseases
... in tissue fibrosis and, subsequently, tissue ...of tissue fibrogenesis ...[8], connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) [9], as well as other mediators, such as endothelin-1 [10], are ...
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Mixed connective tissue disease: state of the art on clinical practice guidelines
... Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is a complex overlap disease with features of different autoimmune connective tissue diseases (CTDs) namely systemic sclerosis, ...
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Scleroderma and HIV Infection: A Case Report with Literature Review
... phenomena. Autoimmune diseas- es can develop in people living with HIV, most in a context of good immu- nological control (vasculitis, anti-phospholipid ...of autoimmune connective tissue ...
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Sex differences in pulmonary arterial hypertension: role of infection and autoimmunity in the pathogenesis of disease
... while autoimmune diseases and infections are closely linked to ...undiagnosed autoimmune diseases based on the relatively high presence of autoantibodies in this ...for autoimmune ...
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Significance of connective tissue diseases features in pulmonary fibrosis
... any connective tissue disease (CTD), also referred to as collagen vascular diseases, with varying frequency and severity [1, ...biological autoimmune features, but do not fulfil diagnostic ...
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Antinuclear antibodies and their detection methods in diagnosis of connective tissue diseases: a journey revisited
... Autoantibodies to extractable nuclear antigens (ENA) Besides DNA and histones, autoantibodies may also target other nuclear antigens. These nuclear antigens were named ENA as originally they were extracted from the ...
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Clinical Study of Cardiovascular Involvement in Patients with Connective Tissue Diseases
... and Autoimmune Diseases erythematosus (SLE), ankylosing spondylitis (AS), Behcet’s disease, Sjogren syndrome (Sjogr), polymyositis, mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) and Systemic ...
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Comorbid connective tissue diseases and autoantibodies in lymphangioleiomyomatosis: a retrospective cohort study
... A 49-year-old Japanese woman with no history of smok- ing was referred to our institution for dyspnoea at rest. She was diagnosed with sporadic LAM based on histo- logical examination of a retroperitoneal tumour (lym- ...
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Mesenchymal stem cells for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus: is the cure for connective tissue diseases within connective tissue?
... Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are now known to display not only adult stem cell multipotency but also robust anti-infl ammatory and regenerative properties. After widespread in vitro and in vivo preclinical testing in ...
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Contribution of pulmonary function tests (PFTs) to the diagnosis and follow up of connective tissue diseases
... an autoimmune, poten- tially systemic disease characterized by an inflammatory, symmetric, additive and erosive arthritis affecting about 1% of the population of developed countries ...an autoimmune ...
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Connective tissue diseases and noninvasive evaluation of atherosclerosis
... Abstract: Connective tissue diseases (CTDs) are associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease due to accelerated ...with autoimmune disorders, in addition to traditional risk ...
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Fetal chondrodysplasia punctata associated with maternal autoimmune diseases: a review
... criteria were proposed. MCTD may begin with any clinical manifestation associated with SLE, systemic sclerosis, poly- myositis or rheumatoid arthritis at the initial presentation or during the clinical course. The most ...
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Interstitial lung disease in connective tissue diseases: evolving concepts of pathogenesis and management
... A number of proinfl ammatory and profi brotic extra- cellular mediators have been implicated in the patho- genesis of interstitial lung diseases and IPF, and are also likely to have important roles in SSc-associated ...
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Health related quality of life measure in systemic pediatric rheumatic diseases and its translation to different languages: an international collaboration
... matory diseases share several features such as their chronic episodic nature, multi-systemic involvement, and the need for immunosuppressive ...inflammatory diseases such as MCTD, JDM, SS, Sjögren ’ s ...
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Quality of life in patients with skin diseases in central Saudi Arabia
... skin diseases, as measured using the culturally adapted Skindex-16 to suit the needs of the Saudi population, is generally ...skin diseases and the perception of ...specific diseases using disease- ...
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Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging: clinical implications in the evaluation of connective tissue diseases
... The complicated pathophysiology of CTDs calls for a ver- satile, noninvasive, nonradiative diagnostic tool suitable for early cardiovascular diagnosis, risk stratification, and treatment follow-up. CMR can detect silent ...
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A review on pulmonary renal syndromes
... systemic diseases, especially in the small vessel vasculitis-pointed out by Gallo in the New England Journal of Medicine: “The kidney is often a window on systemic disease” (Gallo, ...
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... lymphoid tissue has germinal center, and consists of mature lymphocytes, (c) A large germinal center seen adjacent to the bronchiole (right arrow), another germinal center involving the bronchial wall and ...
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