Patients with secondary SS also often exhibit signs and symptoms of their primary rheumatic disorders, such as systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, or systemic sclerosis.
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Hochberg's study compared 869 women with systemic sclerosis-- scleroderma that affects more than just one site in the body-- with 2, 061 women without the disease.
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Bleomycin ( a chemotherapeutic agent ) and possibly taxane chemotherapy may cause scleroderma, and occupational exposure to solvents has been linked with an increased risk of systemic sclerosis.
Since 1972, the majority of Ferri's work has been in the fields of systemic sclerosis, cryoglobulinemic vasculitis and other autoimmune systemic disorders in the Rheumatology Unit of the University of Pisa.
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Another observation by Rudnicka and her co-workers, which may be potentially beneficial as far as managing systemic sclerosis is concerned, was abnormally high expression of prolactin in peripheral mononuclear cells obtained from patients
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The characteristic and severe effects of scleroderma and systemic sclerosis, such as Raynaud's syndrome, involvement of the extremities, prominent small blood vessels ( telangiectasia ), and visceral changes such as swallowing problems, are absent.
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Dr . Shapiro later observed the resolution of Degos skin lesions in an adult patient with an overlap syndrome involving systemic lupus, systemic sclerosis, and Degos disease who was treated with treprostinil for her pulmonary hypertension.
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The study on which Urszula Nowicka's doctoral thesis was based showed a mutation in the 3 coding region of the topoisomerase gene in 56 % of patients with anti-topo I positive ( Scl70-positive ) systemic sclerosis.
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The non-malignant diseases caused by vinyl chloride exposure are systemic and serious, often resulting in a systemic sclerosis of the body as a whole, and are known outside the United States as " vinyl chloride disease ."
