What is connective tissue disease

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Connective tissue disease includes a wide range of causes and symptoms are more complex, need a comprehensive understanding. Let's see what connective tissue disease is.

What is connective tissue disease

First of all, connective tissue disease refers to connective tissue involvement, including lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, dermatomyositis, polyarteritis nodosa, Wegener granuloma, giant cell arteritis and Sjogren's syndrome.

Secondly, connective tissue disease has some common clinical, pathological and immunological features, such as multiple system involvement (that is, skin, joint, muscle, heart, kidney, hematopoietic system, central nervous system can be involved at the same time), long course of disease, complex condition, accompanied by fever, arthralgia, vasculitis, increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate, increased gamma globulin, etc.

Finally: connective tissue disease has some common clinical, pathological and immunological features, such as multiple system involvement (i.e. skin, joint, muscle, heart, kidney, hematopoietic system, central nervous system can be involved at the same time), long course of disease, complex condition, accompanied by fever, arthralgia, vasculitis, increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate, increased gamma globulin, etc.; but each has its own characteristics.

matters needing attention

Generally symptomatic treatment and control of disease development. The principle of individualization should be paid attention to in the treatment plan and drug dosage, and the use of drugs is easy to produce side effects, so we should pay attention to observe these adverse reactions.