Esophageal motility dysfunction, when your esophagus doesn’t work the way it should, so you get chest pain, heartburn, or have a hard time swallowing. Sclerodactyly, a thickening of the skin on your fingers and toes. Telangiectasia(pronounced tuh-lang-jee-uhk-tay-zhuh), when small blood ...
The duration of disease, rate of gastric emptying, and fungal smear and culture were not significantly different in those with or without esophagitis. Treatment of fungal infection for a month had little beneficial effect. The pattern of esophageal motility in scleroderma identifies high and low ...
A serious complication, when thekidneysare affected, issclerodermarenal crisis. This may lead to abrupt onset high blood pressure and progressive kidney failure (NIAMS 2012). Digestive problemsinclude difficulty swallowing, esophageal reflux, bloating, diarrhea, constipation, and fecal incontinence (A.D...
Patients with SSc require routine evaluation for the development of cardiac, pulmonary, and esophageal complications. Testing may include echocardiography, pulmonary function testing, radiography, CT scan, and esophageal motility studies. Skin changes are characteristic of scleroderma, with edema occurring in...
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the esophagus loses its normal motor function of peristalsis and baseline lower esophageal sphincter tone. As a result, patients experience dysphagia due to slow transit through the esophageal body and severe gastroesophageal reflux due to the loss of the reflux barrier and the inability to clear ref...
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Esophageal function in normal subjects and patients with either scleroderma (SCL) or ineffective esophageal motility (IEM) assessed through multichannel in... Esophageal function in normal subjects and patients with either scleroderma (SCL) or ineffective esophageal motility (IEM) assessed through multichan...
esophageal dysmotility, sclerodactyly, and telangiectasia) or diffuse systemic sclerosis based on clinical and serological criteria. Localized scleroderma primarily affects the skin and subcutaneous tissue, whereas systemic sclerosis is associated with systemic manifestations and internal organ involvement, leading...
To assess the correlation between delayed oro-cecal transit time (OCTT) and esophageal motility abnormalities in a cohort of systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients. We prospectively enrolled 50 consecutive SSc patients and 60 healthy volunteers (HVs) as controls. Both groups underwent glucose breath test ...