Systemic Sclerosis Presenting With Chronic Atrophic Gastritis and Retinal Artery Occlusion: A Case Report
Kristine Gvinepadze, Marika Toidze · 2026
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Kristine Gvinepadze and Marika Toidze describe, in 2026, a 67-year-old woman whose systemic sclerosis appeared together with two rare problems. Systemic sclerosis, also called scleroderma, scars tissue and harms small blood vessels across the gut, skin, heart, eyes, kidneys, and lungs.
The woman tested negative for the usual specific antibodies yet developed autoimmune wasting of the stomach lining and a sudden blockage of the retinal artery. She showed large-cell anaemia even though her blood vitamin B12 level was normal, a pattern the authors link to early loss of stomach cells that make intrinsic factor. Clinicians gain a warning to watch stomach and eye complications in this disease, even when antibody tests come back negative.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Kristine Gvinepadze, Marika Toidze |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 16308 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |