1. Assessment of kidney involvement in systemic sclerosis: From scleroderma renal crisis to subclinical renal vasculopathy.
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Gigante A, Leodori G, Pellicano C, Villa A, and Rosato E
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- Humans, Peroxidase, Antibodies, Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic, Kidney, Penicillamine, Scleroderma, Systemic complications, Acute Kidney Injury etiology, Scleroderma, Localized, Vascular Diseases etiology, Ureteral Diseases
- Abstract
The spectrum of kidney involvement in systemic sclerosis (SSc) includes scleroderma renal crisis, widely recognized as the most severe renal-vascular complication, but also several forms of chronic renal vasculopathy and reduced renal function are complications of scleroderma. Scleroderma renal crisis, myeloperoxidase-antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody associated glomerulonephritis, penicillamine-associated renal disease, abnormal urinalysis, alteration of vascular endothelial markers, scleroderma associated-vasculopathy with abnormal renal resistance indices and cardiorenal syndromes type 5 were also reported in SSc patients. A frequent form of renal involvement in SSc patients is a subclinical renal vasculopathy, characterized by vascular damage and normal renal function. Indeed, asymptomatic renal changes, expressed by increase of intrarenal stiffness, are often non-progressive in SSc patients but can lead to a reduction in renal functional reserve. The purpose of this review is to provide an assessment of kidney involvement in SSc, from SRC to subclinical renal vasculopathy., Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The author has no financial or other conflicts of interest to disclose., (Copyright © 2022 Southern Society for Clinical Investigation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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- 2022
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