Abstracts tagged "systemic sclerosis and Raynaud’s phenomenon"

Abstract Number: 716 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Looking for a “Very Early” Nailfold Capillaroscopic Pattern: Specific Alterations of Nailfold Capillaries May Precede the Validated Scleroderma-Patterns in Systemic Sclerosis Patients
Monica Pendolino ¹, Carmen Pizzorni ², Sabrina Paolino ², Veronica Tomatis ³, Elisa Alessandri ⁴, Alberto Sulli ⁵, Federica Goegan ⁶, Vanessa Smith ⁷ and Maurizio Cutolo¹, ¹Research Laboratory and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy, Genoa, Italy, ²Research Laboratory and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, IRCCS San Martino Polyclinic Hospital, Genoa, Italy, Genoa, Italy, ³Research Laboratory and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy, Genoa, Italy, ⁴Research Laboratory and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, IRCCS San Martino Polyclinic Hospital, Genoa, Italy, Genova, ⁵Research Laboratory and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy, Genoa, Italy, ⁶Research Laboratory and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy., Genoa, Italy, ⁷Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital; Department of Internal Medicine, Ghent University; Unit for Molecular Immunology and Inflammation, VIB Inflammation Research Center (IRC), Ghent, Belgium
Background/Purpose: The purpose of this pilot study is to identify, in a cohort of Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) patients, a “very early” nailfold videocapillaroscopy (NVC) pattern…