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Cardiology , Dentistry , Adult , Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use , Aortic Diseases , Arrhythmias, Cardiac , Bacteria/isolation & purification , Blood Circulation , Cardiac Surgical Procedures , Cardiomyopathies , Coronary Disease , Diagnosis, Oral , Endocarditis, Bacterial/etiology , Endocarditis, Bacterial/microbiology , Endocarditis, Bacterial/prevention & control , Focal Infection, Dental/complications , Heart/anatomy & histology , Heart Defects, Congenital/classification , Heart Diseases/diagnosis , Heart Failure , Heart Valve Diseases , Hemorrhage/etiology , Humans , Hypertension , Mouth/microbiology , Pericarditis , Rheumatic Heart Disease , Shock , Thromboembolism , Vascular DiseasesABSTRACT
Thirty one patients with generalised scleroderma underwent labial biopsy. Sixteen showed a nodular infiltration of the accessory salivary glands indicative of Sjögren's syndrome. In 21, intralobular fibrosis was present. More common in those forms with extensive cutaneous involvement, collagenous fibrosis would appear to be a direct manifestation of scleroderma. The frequency of these abnormalities poses the problem of immunological competence with respect to lymphocytic labial infiltrates in generalised scleroderma.
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Salivary Glands/pathology , Scleroderma, Systemic/complications , Sjogren's Syndrome/complications , Biopsy/methods , Humans , Lip/pathology , Scleroderma, Systemic/immunology , Scleroderma, Systemic/pathology , Sjogren's Syndrome/pathologyABSTRACT
500 questionnaires were sent out. The statistical survey was carried out on 116 replies. It emerges from this survey that 81% of our colleagues who answered use a canal filling paste containing a corticoid. The reason for its use is the prevention of fairly serious medicamentous arthritis. A small number (5 colleagues) had complications which they ascribed to the associated corticoid. A few use a non-hardening paste containing a corticoid as a temporary canal filling.
