For the 300,000 Americans living with the immune disease scleroderma, better treatments can't come soon enough. The rare and sometimes fatal illness stiffens and scars tissue in organs like the lungs, ...

Researchers have discovered a protein that may predict disease severity for a lung condition that often proves fatal to patients with scleroderma. The recent study, published in Arthritis Care & ...

Medical University of South Carolina researchers show that patients with scleroderma, a connective tissue disease, and lung fibrosis, or scarring, have too little of the antifibrotic protein Cathepsin ...

Systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD) is a serious complication affecting up to half of people with scleroderma, and it’s a leading cause of death. New guidelines and ...

Investigators have discovered that a biodegradable nanoparticle used in medical sutures could combat a rare, sometimes-fatal autoimmune disease. Researchers found that a unique macrophage, an immune ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Interstitial lung disease and pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with scleroderma often require ...

Alicia M. Hinze, MD: In regard to treatment options, I’ll speak from the rheumatic side of treating interstitial lung disease, using scleroderma as probably 1 of the prototypical rheumatic diseases in ...

An Anne Arundel County man celebrated a big milestone. It has been one year since his double lung transplant operation. Before this procedure, John Kelly was told he didn't have long to live because ...

Researchers found a unique immune cell plays a key role in the chronic inflammation and scarring in the lungs and skin of people with scleroderma, or systemic sclerosis. After injecting mice with ...