Nondigital skin ulcers in systemic sclerosis: A neglected entity by Benzeeta Pinto, Ramya Janardana, Sowmya Kaimal, B Sheba Charles, K N Sangeeta, Jasmine Mathew, Kodishala Chanakya, John Michael Raj, Vineeta Shobha

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Autoantibodies in systemic sclerosis: From disease bystanders to pathogenic players by Aurélien Chepy, Aurore Collet, David Launay, Sylvain Dubucquoi, Vincent Sobanski

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Salivary Levels of Interleukin-17 in Iranian Patients With Systemic Sclerosis by Ali Tadayon, Javad Moayedi, Mohamad Ali Nazarinia, Mahyar Malekzadeh, Sara Kazemi, Maryam Mardani

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Bone Mineral Density is Decreased in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis and Correlates With Serum Intact Parathormone Levels: A Cross-Sectional Study by Shefali Sharma, Aadhaar Dhooria, Tulika Singh, Varun Dhir, Arghya Chattopadhyay, Debashish Mishra, Sanjay Jain

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Nutritional disorders and nutrition-related conditions: an underestimated clinical problem in systemic sclerosis by Anna Wojteczek, Michał Chmielewski, Zbigniew Zdrojewski

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Successful Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Systemic Sclerosis with Anticentriole Antibody by Yusho Ishii, Hiroshi Fujii, Koichiro Sugimura, Tsuyoshi Shirai, Yosuke Hoshi, Yoko Fujita, Yuko Shirota, Tomonori Ishii, Hiroaki Shimokawa, Hideo Harigae

“…Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is characterized by skin sclerosis and multiple organ damages which may cause mortality and is usually accompanied with several specific autoantibodies, each of which is associated with characteristic complications. …”
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Erratum to “From Localized Scleroderma to Systemic Sclerosis: Coexistence or Possible Evolution” by Dilia Giuggioli, Michele Colaci, Emanuele Cocchiara, Amelia Spinella, Federica Lumetti, Clodovero Ferri

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Widespread mutagenesis and chromosomal instability shape somatic genomes in systemic sclerosis by Sriram Vijayraghavan, Thomas Blouin, James McCollum, Latarsha Porcher, François Virard, Jiri Zavadil, Carol Feghali-Bostwick, Natalie Saini

“…Roughly 4-22% of patients with systemic sclerosis develop cancer, which drastically worsens prognosis. …”
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Severe Osteolysis of the Mandibular Angle and Total Condylolysis in Progressive Systemic Sclerosis by Amin Rahpeyma, Seyed Hosein Hoseini Zarch, Saeedeh Khajehahmadi

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Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Tear Samples of Patients with Systemic Sclerosis by Anikó Rentka, Jolán Hársfalvi, András Berta, Krisztina Köröskényi, Zoltán Szekanecz, Gabriella Szücs, Peter Szodoray, Ádám Kemény-Beke

“…Background. Systemic sclerosis is an autoimmune disease, characterized by widespread small vessel vasculopathy, immune dysregulation with production of autoantibodies, and progressive fibrosis. …”
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Does therapy with immunosuppressive drugs improve gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with systemic sclerosis? by Oliver Distler, Cosimo Bruni, Suzana Jordan, Carina Mihai, Muriel Elhai, Rucsandra Dobrota, Alexandru Garaiman, Mike Oliver Becker, Lea Stamm, Sherif Ismail, Norina Zampatti, Aurora Maria Tatu

“…Objectives While important progress was made regarding the treatment of systemic sclerosis (SSc), there is still no evidence-based disease-modifying treatment available for SSc-related gastrointestinal (GI) manifestations. …”
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The clinicoserological spectrum of inflammatory myopathy in the context of systemic sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus by John D Pauling, Sarah Skeoch, Julie J Paik

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Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome as Presenting Form of Very Early Systemic Sclerosis by María Isabel Pedraza, Julia Barbado, Marina Ruiz, Ángel Luis Guerrero

“…We aim to report a case of PRES induced by arterial hypertension and very early systemic sclerosis (SSc) not previously known. Results. …”
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Helicobacter Pylori infection in systemic sclerosis and its association with upper gastrointestinal dysfunction by Chilukuri Balaji, Mahendran Bhuvanesh, Chinnadurai Saranya, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Mayilsamy Saravanan, Sankaralingam Rajeswari

“…Background: Immune dysregulation triggered by environmental events (including microbes) have been implicated in the etiopathogenesis of systemic sclerosis (SSc). Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) a pathogen well known to cause gastric ulcers and has been associated with several autoimmune diseases. …”
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Clinical course and potential associated factors of progressive calcinosis cutis in early systemic sclerosis: a cohort study by Vassana Kanjanajarurat, Prathana Chowchuen, Chingching Foocharoen, Punthip Thammaroj

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Pneumatosis Intestinalis as the Initial Presentation of Systemic Sclerosis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Farshid Ejtehadi, Nikolaos A. Chatzizacharias, Hugh Kennedy

“…More detailed investigations confirmed the diagnosis of systemic sclerosis with positive anticentromeric and antinuclear antibodies. …”
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Long-term cardiovascular outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with systemic sclerosis by Kazutoshi Hirose, Hiroyuki Kiriyama, Shun Minatsuki, Yugo Nagae, Tatsuki Furusawa, Takashi Hiruma, Atsushi Kobayashi, Masataka Sato, Shinnosuke Sawano, Tatsuya Kamon, Hiroki Shinohara, Mizuki Miura, Akihito Saito, Satoshi Kodera, Junichi Ishida, Norifumi Takeda, Hiroyuki Morita, Issei Komuro, Norihiko Takeda

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Refractory Hepatic Hydrothorax: A Rare Complication of Systemic Sclerosis and Presinusoidal Portal Hypertension by Gary A. Abrams, Robert Chapman, Samuel R. W. Horton

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Abnormal Esophageal Scintigraphy Associates With a Distinct Clinical Phenotype in Patients With Systemic Sclerosis by Antonio D. Salas, Lisa R. Yanek, Laura K. Hummers, Ami A. Shah, Zsuzsanna H. McMahan

“…Objective In systemic sclerosis (SSc), absent contractility (AC) rather than ineffective esophageal motility on manometry is associated with a severe esophageal and extraintestinal phenotype. …”
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Artifactual Hypoglycaemia in Systemic Sclerosis and Raynaud’s Phenomenon: A Clinical Case Report and Short Review by RH Bishay, A. Suryawanshi

“…We report a 76-year-old woman with systemic sclerosis and Raynaud’s phenomenon, who presented with upper gastrointestinal bleeding and found to have concomitant persistent hypoglycaemia (1.0–2.7mmol/L) on a point-of-care glucometer in the absence hypoglycaemic symptoms. …”
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