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The case of a young woman who presented with nausea, vomiting and diarrhea is outlined; the etiology turned out to be a first attack of multiple sclerosis. Plausible mechanisms are discussed.
OBJECTIVE
Digital ulcers in patients with systemic sclerosis are associated with pain and poor quality of life. Endothelin-1 promotes vasculopathy in systemic sclerosis after macitentan, an endothelin-1 blocker.
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the efficacy of macitentan in reducing the number of new digital
BACKGROUND
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare connective tissue disease characterized by chronic inflammation and fibrosis of the skin, vascular abnormalities and variable involvement of organs. Patients with limited SSc typically develop pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). TNF-α, VEGF,
A patient who developed mutilans-type arthropathy, splenomegaly, leukopenia, leg ulcer and massive hydroxyapatite accumulation during the course of progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS) was reported. A 56-years-old female had suffered Raynaud's phenomenon since the beginning of her third decade. She
BACKGROUND
Oral disease modifying therapies (DMTs) for multiple sclerosis (MS) differ in efficacy, tolerability, and safety.
OBJECTIVE
We sought to understand how these attributes impact patient preference and predicted DMT non-adherence among oral-naïve MS patients.
METHODS
Adult MS patients from
Colon motility and myoelectric slow wave activity were compared in 10 patients with progressive systemic sclerosis and 18 controls. Recordings were made in the rectosigmoid and rectum, 25-30 cm and 10-15 cm from the anal margin, respectively, during two 4-min baselines and in response to stepwise
A multicenter, open-label study was performed to investigate the safety and tolerability of bosentan in Japanese patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) and secondary digital ulcers. Twenty-eight patients were enrolled. The safety and tolerability of bosentan was monitored over 52 weeks of study
Symptoms of gastrointestinal dysmotility are common among patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), and the management of severe cases is often limited by a relative lack of effective interventions. The objective of this case series was to review our experience with pyridostigmine as a treatment for
Abstract We report a rare case of a 17-year-old female with overlap syndrome (systemic lupus erythematosus and systemic sclerosis) who developed severe abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea accompanied by central nervous system lupus. Colonoscopy revealed multiple irregular and linear ulcers throughout
Gastrointestinal abnormalities in systemic sclerosis (SSc) involve both myogenic and neural mechanisms. The aims of this study were to evaluate the rectoanal inhibitory response (RAIR) in SSc patients and to correlate RAIR with duration and subtype of disease, antibody status, and lower
BACKGROUND
Gastrointestinal (GI) involvement is a serious complication of systemic sclerosis (SSc).
OBJECTIVE
The aim of the study was to determine the incidence of GI manifestations in SSc.
METHODS
We studied 73 patients with SSc (60 women and 13 men). Diffuse cutaneous SSc (dcSSc) was diagnosed in
We studied 14 patients with PSS, 12 females and 2 males with a mean age of 43.6 and a medium of 8 years disease. All of the patients were selected for this study according to updated ARA criteria and were included in a prospective protocol to investigate digestive involvement. This protocol consists
Anorectal function was evaluated in 11 patients with voiding dysfunction due to multiple sclerosis. In six patients with constipation, three also had symptoms of obstructed defecation and one patient was incontinent due to stercoral diarrhea. One patient was only fecal incontinent and one patient
A 24-year-old Japanese woman was admitted to our hospital in January 2000 with daily diarrhea, abdominal distention, and abdominal pain. Raynaud's phenomenon with erythroderma desquamativum eruptions had been found in 1992. In 1999, small intestinal transillumination showed dilation of the second
OBJECTIVE
Gastrointestinal (GI) involvement is common in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc; scleroderma). The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) GI symptom item bank captures upper and lower GI symptoms (reflux, disrupted swallowing, nausea/vomiting, belly pain,