Scleroderma is a rare disease in which a person's immune system begins to destroy normal, healthy tissues. (This is called an autoimmune disease.) As a result, connective tissue of the skin, lungs, ...
CERTAIN lesions of the esophagus, whether localized like a web or more diffuse like scleroderma, may impair esophageal distensibility without narrowing the width of the esophageal lumen as it is ...
The signs and symptoms of scleroderma can be mistaken for any ... Asymptomatic decreases in hemoglobin may indicate esophageal bleeding or bleeding from gastric-arterio-venous ectasia (GAVE ...