Eye Sign is an Alternative for Evaluation of the Microcirculation in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis.
In: Evidence-based Complementary & Alternative Medicine (eCAM), Jg. 2022 (2022-11-04), S. 1-6
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Objectives. To investigate consistency between eye sign and nailfold video capillaroscopy (NVC) in systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients and to evaluate eye sign with various parameters of disease and potential pulmonary involvement. Methods. A total of 60 SSc patients and 20 healthy individuals were enrolled. 20 SSc patients were complicated with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH); 20 SSc patients with interstitial lung diseases (ILD); 20 SSc patients without pulmonary involvement. All subjects were assessed using the methods of NVC and eye sign. Skin involvement was evaluated by modified Rodnan skin score (mRSS) and disease activity according to Medsger's severity score (MSS). Clinical manifestations and the presence of autoantibodies were carefully recorded. Any correlations between were evaluated with the Spearman correlation coefficient test. Results. According to the morphological changes revealed by NVC, 3 types of NVC patterns have been characterized (early pattern, active pattern, and late pattern). Eye sign showed distinguishing morphologic changes in three patterns of NVC and pulmonary involvements (PAH vs ILD) in SSc. A positive linear correlation was found between scores of eye sign and NVC in all patients with SSc (r = 0.629, P = 0.001). A positive correlation of eye sign was found in all SSc patients with mRSS (r = 0.748, P = 0.045) and MSS (r = 0.636, P = 0.001). Conclusions. The study demonstrates that eye sign had a high consistency with NVC for the evaluation of the microcirculation in SSc patients and exhibited specific patterns in the early, active, and late phases of SSc. Eye sign can be used as a reliable method to classify and monitor SSc patients and replace the measurement of NVC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Eye Sign is an Alternative for Evaluation of the Microcirculation in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Yu, Shujiao ; Ni, Xudong ; Zhao, Jun ; Wu, Rui |
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Zeitschrift: | Evidence-based Complementary & Alternative Medicine (eCAM), Jg. 2022 (2022-11-04), S. 1-6 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2022 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1741-427X (print) |
DOI: | 10.1155/2022/1034535 |
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