Antiendothelial cell antibodies in scleroderma correlate with severe digital ischemia and pulmonary arterial hypertension

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 462-465

  Negi, Vir S ^a   Tripathy, Naresh K ^a   Misra, Ramnath ^a   Nityanand, Soniya ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Antiendothelial cell antibody; Scleroderma

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; CELL ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SCLERODERMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; STATISTICS;

EID: 0031951993     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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