Connective Tissue Diseases
Connective tissue diseases and noninvasive evaluation of atherosclerosis
... Abstract: Connective tissue diseases (CTDs) are associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease due to accelerated ...rheumatic diseases, flow-mediated dilatation and arterial ...
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Clinical Study of Cardiovascular Involvement in Patients with Connective Tissue Diseases
... with connective tissue ...with connective tissue diseases were included in the ...with connective tissue ...in connective tissue ...
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Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging: clinical implications in the evaluation of connective tissue diseases
... Cardiology has various noninvasive imaging modalities at its disposal, such as the rest–stress electrocardiogram, rest–stress echocardiography, nuclear imaging, and, more recently, cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) ...
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Antinuclear antibodies and their detection methods in diagnosis of connective tissue diseases: a journey revisited
... Connective tissue diseases (CTD) are a group of autoim- mune disorders which are characterized by presence of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) in the blood of ...
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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
... the tissue due to autoimmune phenomenon. Connective tissue diseases (CTDs) are a collection of autoimmune disorders characterised by antinuclear antibodies (ANAs) in the serum of the ...mixed ...
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Comorbid connective tissue diseases and autoantibodies in lymphangioleiomyomatosis: a retrospective cohort study
... CTDs: Connective tissue diseases; DLco: Diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide; dsDNA: Double stranded DNA; ELISA: Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; HMB45: Human melanoma black-45; HRCT: ...
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Hypercatabolism of normal IgG; an unexplained immunoglobulin abnormality in the connective tissue diseases
... The metabolism of radioiodinated IgG was studied in a series of 42 patients with connective tissue diseases 16 systemic lupus erythematosus, nine rheumatoid arthritis, five polymyositis,[r] ...
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Longitudinal analysis of quality of life in patients with undifferentiated connective tissue diseases
... Introduction/objectives: To prospectively assess the quality of life (QoL) of patients affected by undifferentiated connective tissue diseases (UCTDs) and to identify factors associate[r] ...
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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 stromal cells, originally described in the 1960s as bone forming cells in the bone marrow [6], are now called multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells, or more commonly mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) since they ...
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Prevalence of Intracranial Aneurysms in Patients with Connective Tissue Diseases: A Retrospective Study
... eurysms were found in the anterior circulation, particularly the ICA. On our logistic regression analysis, increasing age was the only variable independently associated with intracranial aneu- rysm in patients with ...
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Interstitial lung disease in connective tissue diseases: evolving concepts of pathogenesis and management
... ILD is now increasingly recognized as a frequent and serious complication of rheumatic diseases and CTDs. Eff ective disease-modifying therapies are still lacking, and many of the currently used treatments are ...
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Renal involvement in autoimmune connective tissue diseases
... severe renal involvement (mainly classes III through V), potentially acting in amplifying the renal disease course [68]. Additional autoantibodies include anti-Smith (Sm) antibodies with a high specificity for SLE, while ...
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Exercise training in pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with connective tissue diseases
... parameters such as WHO-FC in patients with SSc-PAH [6]. However, the test is not sufficiently validated in CTD-APAH and in patients with rheumatic diseases in particular, it is influenced by comorbidity and muscu- ...
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Autoantibodies to angiotensin converting enzyme 2 in patients with connective tissue diseases
... Abbreviations ACE: angiotensin-converting enzyme; Ang: angiotensin; BSA: bovine serum albumin; CTD: connective tissue disease; ELISA: enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; MCTD: mixed conne[r] ...
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Studies of T and B Lymphocytes in Patients with Connective Tissue Diseases
... Each absorption employed 60 X 100 CLL cells, and absorbed supernate was tested with living normal human peripheral blood lymphocytes in an indirect immunofluorescence test system using f[r] ...
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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, ...Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs, held in Milan, ...
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Raynaud’s Phenomenon in Children: A Retrospective Review of 123 Patients
... Clinical and laboratory data were extracted from computerized records, paper charts, and the hospital laboratory computer sys- tem in a standardized manner. Information obtained included demographic information, age at ...
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Quality of life in patients with skin diseases in central Saudi Arabia
... dermatitis, connective tissue diseases and immunological disorders scored significantly higher in the symptom domain, which reflects significantly greater ...ders, connective tissue ...
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Scleroderma and HIV Infection: A Case Report with Literature Review
... autoimmune connective tissue diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus, dermatomyositis, and syndromes of Sjögren and scleroderma have been ...
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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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