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Scleroderma renal crisis in pregnancy associated with massive proteinuria
1Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, 96 Jonathan Lucas Street, Suite 912, Charleston, South Carolina 29425, USA. brownal@musc.edu
Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology
|April 4, 2003
Abstract:
Scleroderma renal crisis is a well-recognized complication of systemic sclerosis (SSc) usually occurring early in the course of the disease in patients with diffuse skin involvement. We report the diagnostic challenge of a case of scleroderma renal crisis associated with massive proteinuria at approximately 20 weeks gestation in a pregnant patient with diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis.