Parakeratosis pustulosa (PP) is a cause of distal nail inflammation and nail dystrophy that affects a single digit. It is nonpruritic and minimally painful. This distal digital dactylitis is ...

Existing Oct CCD cameras are not built for the new uses that they are being championed for. The medical field in particular wants to use them to improve aspects of patient care such as functional ...

That the cerebral arteriopath is prone to transient spells of cerebral ischemia has been amply documented in the past ten years. Often presaging the development of a stroke, these brief episodes ...

Changes in either chromosome structure or number can occur during cell division. Each human has 46 chromosomes, 22 pairs of autosomes and 1 pair of sex chromosomes (XX: female or XY: male). During ...

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare and highly heterogeneous chronic autoimmune disease characterized by multi-organ and tissue fibrosis, often accompanied by a poor prognosis and high mortality rates.

Furthermore, laboratory investigations including measurement of autoantibodies and nailfold videocapillaroscopy were performed. In addition, the patients completed the Scleroderma Health Assessment ...

Kaapana (from the hawaiian word kaʻāpana, meaning “distributor” or “part”) is an open source toolkit for state of the art platform provisioning in the field of medical data analysis. The applications ...

Introduction: Reduced TAPSE/sPAP ratio has recently emerged as a predictive parameter risk factor for PH, however its role in SSc has been poorly investigated. The aim of the study was to investigate ...

Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is characterised by several unique clinical features that differentiate it from rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Attempts to identify immunopathological mechanisms, some shared ...