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Health Encyclopedia: Scleroderma Treatment
Treatment
Because scleroderma is so variable, treatments vary depending on the patient.
The first step is to determine what form the disease has taken:
- Is it local or systemic, and if systemic, is it limited or diffuse?
- If the disease is systemic, what organs, if any, are involved?
Specific drugs are used to help combat the various mechanisms and consequences of the disease.
- Some medications keep blood vessels open (prostacylins, ACE inhibitors and others) and are used to treat Raynaud's phenomenon, h...
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