[Esophageal scintigraphy in patients with systemic sclerosis: clinical symptoms correlated with the esophagus noted by the patients].
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a multisystem connective tissue disorder characterized by excessive accumulation of the extracellular matrix. About 90% of the patients with SSc have detectable gastrointestinal tract involvement, 50% of these patients have clinically important manifestations. The aim of the study was estimation of the connection between subjective symptoms from the esophagus and results of the esophageal scintigraphy. 30 patients with systemic sclerosis were comprised to the study. Esophageal scintigraphy was performed in each patients, as well as questionnaire about type, intensity and frequency of esophageal dysmotility. Also it estimated was stiffness of the skin according to modified Rodnan score. Independent of esophageal dysmotility symptoms which were noted by patients, esophageal scintigraphy registered changes in 97% of the patients. The most often esophageal dysmotility was observed in lower part of the esophagus. Statistically Dysmolity of the central portion of the esophagus was observed more often in patients with diagnosed ISSc.
Wojas-Pelc
Anna
A
Katedra i Klinika Dermatologii Collegium Medicum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 31-501 Kraków, ul. Kopernika 19.
Stepień
Artur
A
Lipko-Godlewska
Sylwia
S
Wielowieyska-Szybińska
Dorota
D
Zabińska-Płazak
Ewa
E
Kiełtyka
Agnieszka
A
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D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D016284:Technetium Tc 99m Pentetate