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15 Ιουν 2024 · Treatment. There is no treatment that can cure or stop the overproduction of collagen that happens in scleroderma. But a variety of treatments can help control symptoms and prevent complications.
15 Ιουν 2024 · Scleroderma is often categorized as limited or diffuse, which refers only to the degree of skin involvement. Both types can involve any of the other vascular or organ symptoms that are part of the disease. Localized scleroderma, also known as morphea, affects only the skin.
1 Απρ 2020 · Mayo Clinic doctors use state-of-the-art imaging modalities, including nailfold video capillaroscopy, for early detection of vascular changes that may help diagnose scleroderma and other scleroderma spectrum disorders, such as mixed connective tissue disease, dermatomyositis and others.
Our approach is that patients with active diffuse skin disease without major organ disease have 3 treatment options: (1) follow with serial observations to define the severity and course of the disease in that in many the skin disease is mild and largely reversible; (2) institute traditional low-dose antimetabolite/immunosuppressive therapy (eg ...
Therapy should be directed at the underlying cause. For lower gastrointestinal tract symptoms, a bowel regimen (eg, polyethylene glycol) for constipation and a trial of antibiotics for diarrhea may improve quality of life, and IBS medications may be helpful.
Treating specific symptoms such as heartburn and Raynaud’s phenomenon; Improving emotional state through counseling and other measures; Surgery may be an option if the complications can’t be resolved with less invasive therapies.
21 Απρ 2018 · calcinosis. Raynaud’s. Scleroderma is a relatively rare autoimmune connective tissue disorder affecting as many as 19.1 per million patients per year. It is characterized by noninflammatory tissue fibrosis, collagen deposition, vasospasm and vaso-occlusion affecting multiple organ systems.
