connective tissue disease

Autoimmune disease, collagen-vascular disease Any of the diseases affecting connective tissues, with an autoimmune component, and immunologic/inflammatory defects Clinical Arthritis, connective tissue defects, endocarditis, myositis, nephritis, pericarditis, pleuritis, synovitis, vasculitis Lab ANAs, direct antiglobulin–Coombs' test, hemolytic anemia, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, ↑ or ↓ Igs, rheumatoid factors, BFP for syphilis Types Ankylosing spondylitis, dermatomyositis, IBD-related arthritis, polychondritis, polymyalgia rheumatica, polymyositis, psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjögren syndrome, SLE, systemic sclerosis, vasculitis

Patient discussion about connective tissue disease

Q. My neighbor's kid had a lens dislocation due to Marfan's disease. Is this a contagious thing? My neighbor's have a sweet 8 year old boy. he had a lens dislocation due to a connective tissue disease named Marfan (I think that the name). It sounds like a very serious condition. My boy is playing with this kid several hour a week. should I take him to the GP to see that his is not infected with this marfan thing?

A. As in love and war so is in medicine the is no always nor never. It is probably the marfan that caused your neighbor kid the lens dislocation but you can never know for sure.
If you want there is nothing wrong in taking your boy for an annual check of an ophthalmologist.

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References in periodicals archive

The prevalence and incidence of mixed connective tissue disease: a national multicentre survey of Norwagian patients.

Clinical and immunological profile in patients with mixed connective tissue disease

Given the evidence that solvents might cause scleroderma and undifferentiated connective tissue disease (signs, symptoms and laboratory abnormalities that suggest a connective tissue disease, but which do not meet criteria for any specific rheumatic disease) (4,5), these increased rates of severe RP could be early preclinical scleroderma or another connective tissue disease.

Raynaud's Phenomenon and other serious health risks from laboratory work with solvents

Editor's note: Vitamin D insufficiency has been examined as a modifiable factor in a number of autoimmune disorders, including connective tissue diseases such as lupus, scleroderma, and rheumatoid arthritis.

Vitamin D insufficiency linked to autoimmune lung disease

Results of a study of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and other connective tissue diseases. Reumatismo 2005; 57 : 109-13.

Anti-nucleosome antibody in sclerodema patients

Mixed connective tissue disease has features of several disorders

Beneath the surface: derm clues to underlying disorders dermatologic findings are frequent indicators of connective tissue disorders. Here's what to look for

The prevalence of undiagnosed pulmonary arterial hypertension in subjects with connective tissue disease at the secondary health care level of community-based rheumatologists (the UNCOVER study).

Pulmonary arterial hypertension related to connective tissue diseases/Bag dokusu hastaliklarina bagli pulmoner arteriyel hipertansiyon

The research is aimed at helping female patients of cancer and connective tissue disease who may lose ovary functions due to treatment for their illnesses, said doctors at the hospital in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture.

Clinical research to begin on freezing, preserving ovary cells

(11) Mixed Connective Tissue disease (MCTD) is a mixture of clinical features found in RA, PSS, PM and AS.

The relationship between kidney function tests and systemic lupus erythematosus

This last category comprised women with PAH secondary to connective tissue disease, pulmonary thromboembolism, systemic vasculitis, chronic hepatitis, HIV infection, or drug-induced PAH.

Mortality risk in pregnancy with PAH remains 'prohibitively high'

Symptoms can occur with any slight change in temperature and although Raynaud's can be fairly mild but if someone develops it in their 30s or 40s, then it may be secondary to a more rare condition called scleroderma, which a debilitating connective tissue disease.

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However, in the past decade, a number of independent studies have concluded there is no convincing evidence that breast implants are associated with connective tissue disease or cancer.

FDA approves silicone gel-filled breast implants