[PDF] Top 20 Clinical and radiographic study of orofacial alterations in patients with systemic sclerosis

... Abstract: Systemic sclerosis (SS) is an autoimmune disease with great repercussions on the hard and soft tissues of the orofacial ...aim of this study was to ... See full document

... severity in our study population, we used a modified version of a previously published clinical score ...[14]. In this scoring system, one point was given for the presence of ... See full document

... evaluate alterations in pulmonary function in patients with systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial pneumonia over a five-year ...longitudinal study involving 35 ... See full document

... endothelium and its plasma levels are increased in patients with systemic ...Eighteen patients fulfilling the American Rheumatism Association criteria for systemic ... See full document

... are in favor of Th17 cells involvement in the pathogenesis of ...receptor and transcription factor involved in Th17 pathway: IL-17A (rs2275913), IL-17F (rs2397084 and ... See full document

... Complaints of peripheral muscle weakness are quite common in patients with systemic sclerosis ...the patients’ exercise performance, which in turn may decrease ... See full document

... In this study oxcarbazepine was given orally in doses of 300-2700 mg daily to one patient with transverse myelitis and to two patients with multiple sclerosis, all of whom had clinical[r] ... See full document

... aim of this study was to compare the brachial artery endothelium-dependent and endothelium-independent dilating responses in patients with limited systemic ... See full document

... roentgenographic study of the upper gastrointes- tinal tract. The presence of lung interstitial disea- se was defined by forced vital capacity (FVC) < 75% of the predicted values ... See full document

... evaluate alterations in pulmonary function in patients with systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial pneumonia over a five-year ...longitudinal study involving 35 ... See full document

... This study was designed to estimate the prevalence of pulmonary radiograph abnormalities and describe the distribution of the patterns of radiographic alterations among ... See full document

... presence of SSc-speci - fic NVC patterns together with the presence of SSc- -spe cific autoantibodies (anti-centromere, anti-topoi- somerase I as well as anti-Th/To and anti-RNA polyme - rase ... See full document

... to systemic inflammation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...aim of our study was to determine the relationship between clinical and ... See full document

... blood of 39 individuals with delayed intellectual development and dysmorphism were ...analyzed. Of these, 26 ...criteria. In all these 26 individuals, both the conventional karyotype ... See full document

... view of the morbidity potential of oral complications in patients with leukemia, this study evaluated the clinical and microbiological alterations that occur ... See full document

... goal of therapy for patients with RA is to control and reduce the rate of degenera- tion of the joints due to immunologic destruction by the host’s immune system (Agarwal, ... See full document

... studies of rheu- matic diseases in anti-HCV-positive patients ...(20). In a study of 13 SLE patients infected with HCV, Perlemuter et ...serious clinical ... See full document

... start with the question: “What is your job?”, if patient’ profession was include in following industry sectors: stonemasonry, quarry- ing, marble working, brickworks and tile manufacture, ... See full document

... thickening of both distal and proximal extremities, with or without truncal involvement) or limited cuta- neous (lcSSc, cutaneous thickening of both extremities distally to the elbows ... See full document

... sample of males was small, and our inability to demonstrate statistically significant differences between the two groups might be due to the lack of statistical ...recruit patients. Since all ... See full document