Tatiana S Rodriguez-Reyna, Andrea Hinojosa-Azaola, Cynthia Martinez-Reyes, Carlos A Nuñez-Alvarez, Rocío Torrico-Lavayen, José Luis García-Hernández, Javier Cabiedes-Contreras
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) shows variable clinical expression among different ethnic groups. Herein, we describe the clinical features, prevalence of organ involvement, and autoantibody profile in Mexican Mestizo SSc patients and we compare them with patients from other ethnic groups.We included 139 SSc patients. They underwent clinical evaluation and were tested for antinuclear antibodies (ANA), anticentromere antibodies (ACA), anti-topoisomerase I, anti-RNA polymerase III, anti-U1 RNP, anti-U3 RNP, anti-U11/U12 RNP, anti-Th/To, anti-PM-Scl, anti-Ku, antinucleosome, anti-double-stranded DNA (dsDNA), anti-Sm, anti-SSA, and anti-SSB antibodies...
November 2011: Autoimmunity