DEAR DR. ROACH: One rheumatologist diagnosed me with unspecified mixed connective tissue disease and Raynaud’s syndrome. I was put on Plaquenil, which caused some hair loss and thinning. I got a ...

The lab panels for evaluating a patient with arthralgias/arthritis for lupus or connective tissue disease are costly. Once a complete blood count and erythrocyte sedimentation rate have been done, is ...

One out of three registered randomized controlled trials on connective tissue diseases are never completed or published, representing a “waste of energy or resources” that may skew meta-analyses, ...

DALLAS — In patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), factors that affect prognosis but not treatment response included age, gender, and connective tissue disease-PAH etiology, and these ...

In a study from Korea, adults with type 2 diabetes had a lower risk for autoimmune rheumatic diseases after starting an SGLT2 ...

EULAR - The European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology - has worked with the European Respiratory Society (ERS) to develop new clinical practice guidelines for interstitial lung disease (ILD) ...

For connective tissue diseases, the multiplex assay is designed to rapidly detect and identify up to 1275 disease markers per hour. Seamless, microarray-internal calibration and quality control as ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Rituximab (Rituxan) matched IV cyclophosphamide for improving lung function in patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD) related to systemic sclerosis and other connective tissue ...

Also known as the thumb-palm test, the thumb test doesn’t necessarily indicate that someone currently has an aneurysm. Rather ...