Mixed connective tissue disease is a complicated disease. Because it has symptoms of other disorders, it is considered an ...

Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (also known as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type III) is an inheritable connective tissue disorder involving mainly the joints with hypermobile joints and chronic ...

Connective tissue diseases are a heterogeneous group of autoimmune disorders that affect any of the body's connective tissues. These disorders can be inherited or acquired, and can present with a ...

I was diagnosed with something called undifferentiated connective tissue disease, or UCTD. This means that I was exhibiting symptoms of and had the blood work to prove a connective-tissue disease ...

An expert in connective tissue disease–associated interstitial lung disease described best approaches for rheumatologists to ...

Mitral valve prolapse (Barlow’s disease) is a connective tissue disorder which results in the valve leaflets becoming redundant causing prolapse into the left atrium during systole. This can ...

Scleroderma is a rare, autoimmune connective tissue and rheumatic disease ... different treatments that can target the various symptoms of the disease, such as steroid creams for the skin ...