Scleroderma is one of the auto-immune rare diseases treated at the Royal Free NHS. Order your #SclerodermaFreeWorld #RaynaudsFreeWorld T-shirt here:
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2020, the scleroderma unit celebrates its 25th year anniversary. Huge thanks to Prof Dame Carol Black, Prof Chris Denton, Dr Kevin Howell and AHP team for their tireless dedication and life commitment towards a #SclerodermaFreeWorld and #RaynaudsFreeWorld
Scleroderma, also called systemic sclerosis, is a severe and potentially life-threatening autoimmune, rheumatic disease that is rare, affecting 1 in 10000 people. There is no cure for scleroderma but treatments of complications in the lung and kidney are improving and progress is being made in understanding the disease. It causes scarring and damage to the blood vessels and internal organs such as the lung, heart and kidney. It also leads the hardening or thickening of skin, hence the name scleroderma (“hard skin”).
Despite the serious impact of scleroderma on vital organs and quality of life, it receives much less attention than other commoner medical problems and this has limited progress in understanding and treating the disease. The Royal Free Hospital has the largest centre specialising in scleroderma in the UK and it is led by Professor Chris Denton. The unit undertakes ground-breaking research to bring benefit for patients, for example to understand the root cause of the disease and to test new potential therapies. Donations to support the clinical and research activity of the Scleroderma Unit are invaluable as they help to fund research projects that will ultimately help us to provide better and safer treatments for patients.
Please donate to help fund life saving medical research at the scleroderma unit. Your entire donation will go towards funding research only:
https://www.royalfreecharity.org/donate/scleroderma-raynauds
Read more about research at the scleroderma unit here:
https://www.royalfreecharity.org/do/research-and-grants
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