Scleroderma Symptoms
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What Is It?
Scleroderma is a poorly understood illness that causes widespread hardening of the skin, especially on the hands and face. It also can damage the lungs, heart, kidneys, digestive tract, muscles and joints. It is a long-lasting (chronic) autoimmune disorder, an illness in which the body's immune defenses mistakenly attack the body's own cells rather than protecting them from outside invaders. Scleroderma also is called progressive systemic sclerosis.
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Scleroderma
Source: HealthCentral Encyclopedia
Scleroderma is a chronic, degenerative, autoimmune disorder that leads to the over-production of collagen in the body's connective tissue. The word... Read more »
Scleroderma: Symptoms
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Scleroderma is not common. It afflicts about 300,000 Americans, but only about 49,000 have the systemic form of the disease. The cause of scleroderma... Read more »
Lipitor, other statins, may help symptoms of systemic sclerode...
Researchers in Japan have found that statin therapy may help relieve symptoms of systemic scleroderma, a disfiguring disease that affects the skin... Read more »
Scleroderma: Highlights
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
OverviewScleroderma is a rare disease marked by the following:Damage to the cells lining the walls of small arteriesAn abnormal buildup of tough... Read more »
Morphea Scleroderma
Source: HealthCentral Encyclopedia
The word "scleroderma" means "hardening of the skin" and refers to one of the possible physical effects of the disease.Localized scleroderma is... Read more »
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