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In 1982, while working as a management consultant for McKinsey & Co. Inc., Monsky was diagnosed with scleroderma and was told she had only two years to live. The rare disease hardens the skin and internal organs of young women of child-bearing age causing disfigurement, and is potentially fatal.
The Juvenile Scleroderma Network is an organization dedicated to providing emotional support and educational information to parents and their children living with juvenile scleroderma, supporting pediatric research to identify the cause of and the cure for juvenile scleroderma, and enhancing public awareness.
About three per 100,000 people per year develop the systemic form. [3] The condition most often begins in middle age. [1] Women are more often affected than men. [1] Scleroderma symptoms were first described in 1753 by Carlo Curzio [9] and then well documented in 1842. [10] The term is from the Greek skleros meaning "hard" and derma meaning ...
Each disorder is listed with the primary organ or body part that it affects and the associated autoantibodies that are typically found in people diagnosed with the condition. Each disorder is also categorized by its acceptance as an autoimmune condition into four levels: confirmed, probable, possible, and uncertain.
People with scleromyositis have symptoms of both systemic scleroderma and either polymyositis or dermatomyositis, and is therefore considered an overlap syndrome. Although it is a rare disease, it is one of the more common overlap syndromes seen in scleroderma patients, together with MCTD and Antisynthetase syndrome.
CREST syndrome, also known as the limited cutaneous form of systemic sclerosis (lcSSc), is a multisystem connective tissue disorder.The acronym "CREST" refers to the five main features: calcinosis, Raynaud's phenomenon, esophageal dysmotility, sclerodactyly, and telangiectasia.
“As with all research, finding a greater sample of people affected by these conditions using GLP-1 medications may help to identify risk factors for these types of problems,” Ali added. ”If ...
Morphea is a form of scleroderma that is more common in women than men, in a ratio 3:1. [17] Morphea occurs in childhood as well as in adult life. [3] Morphea is an uncommon condition that is thought to affect 2 to 4 in 100,000 people. [18] Adequate studies on the incidence and prevalence have not been performed.