Heritability of Raynaud's phenomenon and vascular responsiveness to cold: A study of adult female twins

Autoantibodies and microvascular damage

Autoantibodies and microvascular damage are independent predictive factors for the progression of Raynaud's phenomenon to systemic sclerosis: A twenty-year prospective study of 586 patients, with validation of proposed criteria for early systemic sclerosis

✍ Martial Koenig; France Joyal; Marvin J. Fritzler; André Roussin; Michal Abrahamo 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 186 KB 👁 2 views

## Abstract ## Objective To identify in patients with Raynaud's phenomenon (RP) independent markers that predict progression to definite systemic sclerosis (SSc) and to determine in patients with progression to SSc the type and sequence of microvascular damage and its relationship to SSc‐specific