Mixed Connective Tissue Disease MCTD

Uveitis Caused by Connective Tissue Disease

Connective tissue and lymphoproliferative disorders

Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a chronic, life-threatening disorder characterized by abnormally high blood pressure in the arteries between the heart and lungs of an affected individual. T...

Tissue Transplantation

Antibody test ‘inappropriate’ without connective tissue symptoms

The positive antinuclear antibody test is often used inappropriately in patients without indications of connective tissue disease, real-world research suggests.

Connective tissue diseases: Interstitial lung disease treated with mycophenolate mofetil

Connective tissue diseases: Disease severity directly affected by diet in a mouse model of SLE

Gene identified, responsible for a spectrum of disorders affecting the bones and connective tissue

(RIKEN) Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences have identified a gene that when mutated is responsible for a spectrum of disorders affecting the bones and connective tissue...

Ehlers–Danlos syndrome type VIII is clinically heterogeneous disorder associated primarily with periodontal disease, and variable connective tissue features

Spectrum Of Disorders Affecting The Bones And Connective Tissue Caused By Newly Identified Gene

Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences have identified a gene that when mutated is responsible for a spectrum of disorders affecting the bones and connective tissue. This f...

Arachnodactyly—a key to diagnosing heritable disorders of connective tissue

Arachnodactyly–spidery fingers–is typical of patients with one of the heritable diseases of connective tissue. This Review highlights the differences and similarities amongst these diseases and se...

Exagen Diagnostics Receives Avise SLE Certification In New York

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Oct. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Exagen Diagnostics, Inc., a specialty focused molecular diagnostics laboratory that discovers, develops and markets proprietary tests for rheumato...

Connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease: a call for clarification.

This commentary highlights the present dilemmas surrounding the classification of a patient with interstitial pneumonia who has clinical features suggesting an associated connective tissue disease but...

Clinical value of (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in patients with connective tissue disease.

Connective tissue diseases represent a heterogeneous group of immunologically mediated inflammatory disorders with a large variety of affected organs other than the lung. (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose posi...

Extracellular matrix administration as a potential therapeutic strategy for periodontal ligament regeneration.

Introduction: The current strategies employed for the treatment of connective tissue disease include the application of stem cells, the use of functional molecules that can reorganize tissue integrit...

A Histopathological Study of Pulmonary Hypertension in Connective Tissue Disease.

Connective tissue diseases (CTD), such as systemic sclerosis (SSc), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD), develop pulmonary hypertension (PH). Generally all P...

Connective Tissue Disease Presenting With Signs and Symptoms of Pulmonary Hypertension in Children.

Our case series describes three children who were initially diagnosed as having severe pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and subsequently found to be positive for specific autoantibodies suggestiv...