Taitia Shelow and Caroline Graettinger get ready to face another day grappling with a rare autoimmune disease called ...

Scleroderma is classified ... There are 2 small, painful, digital ulcers on the knuckles of her right hand and 1 under the thumbnail on her left. Her fingers exhibit the beginnings of ...

Therefore, it may be best to start by reviewing the diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to gangrene management in the setting of scleroderma ... of the toes and fingers -- often with a clear ...

Scleroderma symptoms are different for each person. Your symptoms depend on the type of disease you have. The thing you’re most likely to notice first is that the skin on your fingers ...

In an article appearing in the May 10, 2016 issue of JAMA, Dinesh Khanna, M.D., of the University of Michigan Scleroderma Program ... and active digital (finger) ulcers at trial entry were ...

It can also effectively heal and prevent hand and finger ulcers. Scleroderma is a rheumatic disease that results in the thickening and tightening of skin, as well as a build-up of scar tissue and ...

Scleroderma means “hard skin.” Early symptoms of scleroderma include changes in the fingers and hands, such as stiffness, tightness, and puffiness, due to sensitivity to cold or emotional stress.

A major and incapacitating complication of scleroderma is the development of ulcers on the patients' fingers and toes that are very painful and difficult to heal. Now, researchers are studying the ...

A research has suggested that adding tadalafil to the treatment of people with scleroderma can improve Raynaud's phenomenon symptoms and heal and prevent hand and finger ulcers associated with it ...