Much of the research on scleroderma, a connective tissue disease that causes scarring, or fibrosis, has focused on the increased number of proteins promoting fibrosis in these patients. A Medical ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered a protein that may predict disease severity for a lung condition that often proves fatal to patients with scleroderma. The recent study, published in Arthritis Care & ...

A massive analysis of immune cells in human tissue is yielding clues to the root cause of lung and autoimmune diseases.

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 ...

Alicia M. Hinze, MD: In regard to treatment options, I’ll speak from the rheumatic side of treating interstitial lung disease, using scleroderma as probably 1 of the prototypical rheumatic diseases in ...

A massive analysis of immune cells in human tissue is yielding clues to the root causes of lung and autoimmune diseases.

Medical University of South Carolina researchers show that patients with scleroderma, a connective tissue disease, and lung fibrosis, or scarring, have too little of the antifibrotic protein Cathepsin ...

Researchers have discovered a protein that may predict disease severity for a lung condition that often proves fatal to patients with scleroderma. The recent study, published in Arthritis Care & ...