title: Usefulness of video-capillaroscopy in clinical practice: systematic review of indications and results in rheumatology and in non-rheumatic disorders.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Nailfold video-capillaroscopy (VCP) is nowadays worldwide considered as one of the best diagnostic noninvasive imaging technique able to study microcirculation in vivo.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To review the applications of VCP in the clinical practice and its results in rheumatic and non-rheumatic diseases.
  
  
  METHODS
  Review of literature
  
  
  RESULTS
  The possibility of managing the imaging, by means of dedicated software able to characterize quantitative and qualitative data, represents another relevant property of VCP. This technique is very useful at the identification of microvascular involvement in many rheumatic diseases, particularly in systemic sclerosis and related disorders. At the same time, VCP has been showed valuable in many other extra-rheumatic diseases. The authors review the applications of VCP in the clinical practice and its results in rheumatic and non-rheumatic diseases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Rheumatology, Cardarelli Hospital, Naples, Italy.
authors.forename: Romualdo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Russo
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gallucci
authors.forename: Generoso
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Uomo
authors.forename: Chiraz Ben
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Hadj Yahia
authors.forename: Leila
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Abdelmoula
authors.forename: Lilia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chaabouni
authors.forename: Rafik
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zouari
mesh_terms: D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D002196:Capillaries / Q000473:pathology*; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000175:diagnosis; D003925:Diabetic Angiopathies / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D010505:Familial Mediterranean Fever / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis; D020678:Microscopic Angioscopy / Q000379:methods*; D017566:Microvascular Angina / Q000175:diagnosis; D011928:Raynaud Disease / Q000175:diagnosis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012216:Rheumatic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D012219:Rheumatology / Q000379:methods; D014741:Video Recording