Untreated long-standing RTA is known to cause metabolic bone disease. Here, we present the report of a patient with sclerotic metabolic bone disease related to pSS with combined distal and proximal ...

Objectives To study the bone mineral density (BMD) and body composition (BC) in Chinese patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), and the risk factors for low BMD. Methods Consecutive patients who ...

DMM significantly (p<0.05) increased tibiofemoral cartilage damage, subchondral bone sclerosis, marginal osteophytes and synovitis, in association with increased cartilage and synovial MMP-13. DMM ...

MRI of the spine revealed well-defined T1 (figure, A), T2, and short T1 inversion recovery hypointense lesions in multiple places in the dorso-lumbar vertebrae, sacrum, and iliac bone, some of which ...

unifi.it Objective To characterise bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) for the expression of factors implicated in MSC recruitment at sites of ...

CGL subtypes 1 and 2 present sclerosis and osteolytic lesions that can resemble “pagetic” lesions. The clinical correlation is, therefore, essential. We report a CGL patient with bone lesions in which ...

Indeed, aberrant phosphorylation and protein accumulation is a hallmark of several neurodegenerative diseases. In multiple sclerosis (MS), large protein aggregates composed primarily of amyloid ...

erasmusmc.nl Background: Given the presumed key role for autoreactive lymphocytes in multiple sclerosis (MS), treatment strategies ... progressive patients with MS treated by autologous bone-marrow ...

aDepartment of Pathology, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India bDepartment of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, ...