Nailfold Capillaroscopy: A Comprehensive Review on Its …
网页2024年6月18日 · Nailfold capillaroscopy (NFC) is a simple, highly sensitive, non-invasive, safe, reliable, and inexpensive tool designed to assess a number of features of nailfold capillaries, including capillary density, blood flow, and different kinds of abnormal morphology. It can provide a visual inspection of the microcirculation in situ.
Nailfold capillaroscopy : a comprehensive review on common …
网页Nailfold video-capillaroscopy (NVC) is a useful diagnostic tool, used to early detect abnormalities in micro-circulation, providing a qualitative description of microvascular anomalies in Raynaud's phenomenon. NVC role in the diagnosis of …
What is capillaroscopy - More Than Scleroderma
网页A doctor or nurse will use a microscope or a small camera (a dermatoscope) to look at the skin at the bottom of your fingernails (your nailfold). The process of viewing these blood vessels (capillaries) is called nailfold capillaroscopy. The test is painless and usually takes place in a doctor’s office. 1.
Proximal Nail Fold: Pictures, Function, Care, and Medical Concerns
网页2021年7月9日 · The proximal nail fold is the skin that borders the bottom of your nail. It keeps the nail in place and protects it as it grows. The fold is connected to the cuticle, which is attached to your...
Nailfold Capillaroscopy in Rheumatic Diseases: Which …
网页2015年9月1日 · Nailfold capillaroscopy is a highly sensitive, inexpensive, simple, safe, and noninvasive imaging technique used in the morphological analysis of nourishing capillaries in the nailfold area .
Rheumatologists Find Nailfold Capillaroscopy an Increasingly Useful ...
网页2017年10月18日 · A recent study investigated the possible differences in nailfold videocapillaroscopy in four types of inflammatory myopathies. Researchers observed giant capillaries, disorganization and major capillary loss in dermatomyositis and overlap myositis patients, finding dermatomyositis and overlap myositis imaging was different from that of ...
Nailfold capillaroscopy - ScienceDirect
网页2023年3月1日 · Nailfold capillaroscopy is a safe and well-established method for the assessment of structural alterations of the microcirculation. It is a crucial tool in the investigation and monitoring of patients presenting with Raynaud's phenomenon.
Quantitative nailfold capillaroscopy—update and possible next steps
网页2021年1月25日 · Nailfold capillaroscopy allows direct, non-invasive assessment of the microcirculation. All rheumatologists need to have some working knowledge of the technique, because otherwise they may miss an early diagnosis of SSc: abnormal nailfold capillaries score two of the nine required points to fulfil the ACR/EULAR classification criteria [ …
Nailfold capillaroscopy: tips and challenges - Clinical Rheumatology
网页2022年8月30日 · Nailfold capillaroscopy is a simple, non-invasive, safe, reliable, and inexpensive tool to morphologically study the nail microcirculation [5]. It is usually performed manually by trained healthcare professionals and particularly rheumatologists.
Nailfold capillaroscopy by smartphone-dermatoscope for …
网页2021年11月8日 · Nailfold capillaroscopy (NFC) is a noninvasive tool validated for the diagnosis of systemic sclerosis (SSc) and distinguishing primary from secondary Raynaud's phenomenon, with potential utility in a broader array of CTDs [3, 4]. Quantitative and qualitative nailfold features have been associated with pulmonary involvement in …