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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Shaghayegh Habibi, M.D.[2]

Overview

Physical examination of patients with MCTD is usually remarkable by clinical features seen in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)rheumatoid arthritis (RA)dermatomyositis (DM)polymyositis, and scleroderma. Physical examination in patients with MCTD include tachycardia, tachypnea, periungual telangiectasia, sclerodactyly, jugular vein distention, rhonchi and wheezing, joint swelling and tenderness, and joints erythema.

Physical Examination

Appearance of the Patient

  • Patient appears well in the earlier stages of the disease
  • Patient appears ill in the late stages of the disease due to multi-organ involvement

Vital Signs[1]

Skin[2][3]

HEENT

  • HEENT examination of patients with mixed connective tissue disease is usually normal.

Neck[4]

Lungs[1]

Heart

  • Cardiovascular examination of patients with mixed connective tissue disease is usually normal.

Abdomen

  • Abdominal examination of patients with mixed connective tissue disease is usually normal.

Genitourinary

  • Genitourinary examination of patients with mixed connective tissue disease is usually normal.

Extremities[5][6][7]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Bodolay E, Szekanecz Z, Dévényi K, Galuska L, Csípo I, Vègh J, Garai I, Szegedi G (May 2005). "Evaluation of interstitial lung disease in mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD)". Rheumatology (Oxford). 44 (5): 656–61. doi:10.1093/rheumatology/keh575. PMID 15716315.
  2. Dabiri G, Falanga V (November 2013). "Connective tissue ulcers". J Tissue Viability. 22 (4): 92–102. doi:10.1016/j.jtv.2013.04.003. PMC 3930159. PMID 23756459.
  3. Prystowsky SD (April 1980). "Mixed connective tissue disease". West. J. Med. 132 (4): 288–93. PMC 1272064. PMID 7385833.
  4. Latuśkiewicz-Potemska J, Zygmunt A, Biernacka-Zielińska M, Stańczyk J, Smolewska E (October 2013). "Mixed connective tissue disease presenting with progressive scleroderma symptoms in a 10-year-old girl". Postepy Dermatol Alergol. 30 (5): 329–36. doi:10.5114/pdia.2013.38365. PMC 3858664. PMID 24353496.
  5. Bennett RM, O'Connell DJ (October 1978). "The arthritis of mixed connective tissue disease". Ann. Rheum. Dis. 37 (5): 397–403. PMC 1000265. PMID 718271.
  6. Ramos-Niembro F, Alarcón-Segovia D, Hernández-Ortíz J (January 1979). "Articular manifestations of mixed connective tissue disease". Arthritis Rheum. 22 (1): 43–51. PMID 758918.
  7. Sen S, Sinhamahapatra P, Choudhury S, Gangopadhyay A, Bala S, Sircar G, Chatterjee G, Ghosh A (January 2014). "Cutaneous manifestations of mixed connective tissue disease: study from a tertiary care hospital in eastern India". Indian J Dermatol. 59 (1): 35–40. doi:10.4103/0019-5154.123491. PMC 3884926. PMID 24470658.

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