Objective. Juvenile localized scleroderma (JLS) includes a number of conditions often grouped together. With the long-term goal of developing uniform classification criteria, we studied the epidemiological, clinical and ...

Objective. Juvenile localized scleroderma (JLS) includes a number of conditions often grouped together. With the long-term goal of developing uniform classification criteria, we studied the epidemiological, clinical and ...

Systemic Sclerosis (SS) is a chronic idiopathic inflammatory disease whose main hint towards autoimmunity is given by the presence of high serum levels of autoantibodies in the majority of the patients. In indirect ...

Objectives: Serum autoantibodies are pivotal for the early detection of systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases such as Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) and Poly/Dermatomyositis (PM/DM), and in some cases are associated with organ ...

Much is known about the geoepidemiology of defined autoimmune diseases (AD); however, there is currently limited data regarding the prevalence of autoantibodies among healthy populations of different geographical areas. ...

The identification of etiological factors in the induction of autoimmunity has remained elusive despite an enormous effort at dissection of the molecular structure of the target antigens and effector mechanisms. One ...

Introducción: La polimiositis y dermatomiositis, son enfermedades del grupo de miopatías inflamatorias, su curso es crónico, etiología autoinmune, tienen debilidad muscular simétrica de inicio proximal y la dermatomiositis ...