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 & ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . DESTIN, Fla. — Detection and treatment of interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis calls for early and ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nearly 10% of patients with systemic sclerosis had systemic sclerosis sine scleroderma, a subtype without skin ...

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 ...

An Anne Arundel County man celebrated a big milestone. It has been one year since his double lung transplant operation. Before this procedure, John Kelly was told he didn't have long to live because ...

After years battling scleroderma, Andrew Botieri completed a novel just before undergoing a rare double lung and kidney ...

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