Four patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, 3 with other connective-tissue syndromes (1 of whom was suspected of having systemic lupus) and 5 of the 9 with Raynaud's phenomenon alone had ...

Recent advances aim to refine the utility and understanding of anti-dsDNA antibodies beyond their established diagnostic value in systemic lupus erythematosus. Studies are increasingly focusing on ...

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 ...

Purpose Connective tissue diseases (CTDs) are heterogeneous with overlapping clinical features and shared immunopathology. We sought to assess clinical characteristics, arterial stiffness and ...

SLE was the most common RCTD (44.5%), followed by primary Sjögren’s syndrome (22.2%), primary antiphospholipid syndrome (16.6%), SSc (11.2%), and mixed connective tissue disease (5.5%). Specific ...

Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were generally older (mean age, 73.4 vs 65.2 years; P <.0001) and more often men (31.4% vs 24.4%; P <.0001), compared against those without infection. The risk for ...

Is a connective-tissue disease the basic initiating mechanism that secondarily incites an antigen–antibody ... J. M. Sjögren's syndrome and systemic lupus erythematosus. Brit. M. J. 1:466–469 ...

Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were generally older (mean age, 73.4 vs 65.2 years; P <.0001) and more often men (31.4% vs 24.4%; P <.0001), compared against those without infection. The risk for ...

Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were generally older (mean age, 73.4 vs 65.2 years; P <.0001) and more often men (31.4% vs 24.4%; P <.0001), compared against those without infection. The risk ...