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 ...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a common complication of systemic sclerosis, carries a very severe prognosis and is one of the leading causes of death in patients who suffer from it. Indeed, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CLEVELAND — Every patient with systemic sclerosis should be screened for pulmonary arterial hypertension every ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN DIEGO — Pulmonary arterial hypertension’s prevalence and rate of progression in patients with connective ...

Screening for a sometimes fatal condition among patients with a rare autoimmune disease could soon - thanks to a computer algorithm - become even more accurate. Researchers at Michigan Medicine found ...

Systemic sclerosis (SSc), also referred to as scleroderma, is a rare autoimmune disease associated with vasculopathy, inflammation, and fibrosis of the skin and/or internal organs. Interstitial lung ...

Screening for a sometimes fatal condition among patients with a rare autoimmune disease could soon - thanks to a computer algorithm - become even more accurate. Researchers at Michigan Medicine found ...

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- The lifespan for patients with scleroderma has increased significantly since the 1970s, in large measure because of a decline in deaths from renal disease. A review of data on ...

Expert Rev Resp Med. 2009;3(2):187-196. Paul M. Hassoun, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, ...