PATHOGENESIS OF SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS A VASCULAR HYPOTHESIS
PATHOGENESIS OF SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS A VASCULAR HYPOTHESIS
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DOI:
10.1016/0049-0172(75)90017-7
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发表时间:
1975-01-01
影响因子:
5
通讯作者:
CARWILE LE ROY E
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作者:
CAMPBELL P M;CARWILE LE ROY E
YSTEMIC SCLEROSIS, or scleroderma, is a generalized multisystem S disease in which the cutaneous features dominate the patient’s appearance, but visceral involvement determines the patient’s survival. Historically, scleroderma was thought to be an affliction of the skin, but cumulative evidence of visceral involvement led Goetzl to propose the term “progressive systemic sclerosis”(the lack of progression in many patients has led recent observers to use the term “systemic sclerosis” as essentially synonymous with scleroderma). In both the identification and early investigation of scleroderma, emphasis centered on the late-stage fibrosis; more recent interest has been in the widespread vascular involvement and its potential as a unifying pathogenetic concept.The study and review of the 261 cases of systemic sclerosis seen at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center over the past 20 yr has led to a conceptual scheme, speculative in part, of etiology and pathophysiology which emphasizes the vascular tree as a target organ in systemic sclerosis. This hypothesis, linking inflammatory, proliferative, and indurative phases of the vascular lesion, is presented on a background of the general features of systemic sclerosis and is extended to highlight specific points in the management of organ involvement. Since several recent reviews provide excellent, detailed coverage of the disease, only those aspects which contribute to our understanding of this hypothesis will be included here. 2* 4* 5J’