Q. I am writing to you for information regarding mixed connective tissue disease. I am a 27-year-old woman and was recently diagnosed with the disease. I have no idea what it is or where I got it.

In mixed connective tissue disease, there are elements of lupus, scleroderma and polymyositis, but these often occur at different times in the course of the disease.

DEAR DR. ROACH: One rheumatologist diagnosed me with unspecified mixed connective tissue disease and Raynaud’s syndrome. I was put on Plaquenil, which caused some hair loss and thinning. I got a ...

If the latter two are negative and suspicion remains high, order an extractable nuclear antigen and an anti-SS-A antibody level to put together the diagnosis of mixed connective tissue disease or ...

DESTIN, Fla. — Interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features may potentially be the newest category of undifferentiated connective tissue disease, according to Judith James, MD, PhD, of ...

Collagen diseases constitute a group of illnesses characterized by a variety of connective-tissue lesions with varying degrees of vascular involvement. 32 Autoimmune phenomena such as antinuclear ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: One rheumatologist diagnosed me with unspecified mixed connective tissue disease and Raynaud’s syndrome. I was put on Plaquenil, which caused some hair loss and thinning. I got ...

In mixed connective tissue disease, there are elements of lupus, scleroderma and polymyositis, ... These antibodies need to be present at high levels in order to make the diagnosis.

DEAR DR. ROACH: One rheumatologist diagnosed me with unspecified mixed connective tissue disease and Raynaud’s syndrome. I was put on Plaquenil, which caused some hair loss and thinning. I got a ...