Mutilation Scleroderma

Mutilation scleroderma: a problem with muscles and skin

Scleroderma mutilation is a rare but potentially dangerous disease. Mutilation is the name given to cicatricial contracture (tension) of the skin caused by contractural fibrosis. With this disease, the skin tightens, it becomes thick and rough, acquires a bluish tint, after a while atrophy develops, and the skin becomes loose. The disease is difficult to treat, scars remain on the skin, and due to the constant tension of the skin, a person experiences pain, and there is a danger of skin ruptures due to hormonal and physical stress.

Although mutation can occur for a variety of reasons and at any age, certain factors increase the risk of developing it. These include:

- Genetic predisposition;

In most cases, scleroderma mutilation is a consequence of metabolic disorders in certain diseases: calcium metabolism disorder, diabetes insipidus, etc. However, a hereditary predisposition to the development of the disease is also present in many patients with fibrous tissue transformation. Based on the results of the examination of the child, it is possible to identify the latent course of the disease in the mother even before the birth of the child or another pathology, the presence of which must be known and corrected even in the prenatal period of development or during the early development of the child;