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Vascular changes in autoimmunological connective tissue diseases
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Abstract
Vascular complications due to systemic connective tissue diseases pose a very difficult clinical problem. Due to the nature and location of the lesions, they very often prevent revascularization procedures and the conservative treatment is usually insufficient, which leads to a growth in the degree of ischemia and the need to amputate the limb. The authors clearly show the clinical picture of the most common diseases in this group — systemic lupus erythomatosus, systemic scleroderma, dermatomyositis, mixed connective tissue disease and Sjögren’s syndrome.
Abstract
Vascular complications due to systemic connective tissue diseases pose a very difficult clinical problem. Due to the nature and location of the lesions, they very often prevent revascularization procedures and the conservative treatment is usually insufficient, which leads to a growth in the degree of ischemia and the need to amputate the limb. The authors clearly show the clinical picture of the most common diseases in this group — systemic lupus erythomatosus, systemic scleroderma, dermatomyositis, mixed connective tissue disease and Sjögren’s syndrome.
Keywords
connective tissue disease, vascular changes, systemic sclerosis, Raynaud’s fenomenon
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Vascular changes in autoimmunological connective tissue diseases
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172-176
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2017-03-14
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Acta Angiologica 2016;22(4):172-176.
Keywords
connective tissue disease
vascular changes
systemic sclerosis
Raynaud’s fenomenon
Authors
Elzbieta Szymanska
Marta Wieczorek
Zuzanna Lagun
Aleksandra Malewska
Marek Roszkiewicz
Irena Walecka
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