AI Medical Compendium Journal:
Journal of scleroderma and related disorders

OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of elevated D-dimer plasma concentration (>500 ng/mL) in patients with systemic sclerosis and evaluate its association with systemic sclerosis-specific microvascular and macrovascular complications.

The most common cause of acute renal failure in systemic sclerosis patients is scleroderma renal crisis but other etiologies have to be considered such as another autoimmune disease. We report the case of a 60-year-old male admitted to our hospital w...

INTRODUCTION: Since female sexual dysfunction in systemic sclerosis women is multifactorial, we can assume that vascular damage may play a role in pathogenesis. The aim of the study was to evaluate the clitoral blood flow, by Echo color Doppler, and ...