Patients with systemic sclerosis who demonstrate digital ulcers use “significantly more” health care resources annually than patients without digital ulcers, according to data published in Arthritis Care and Research … “[Digital ulcers (DUs)] are slow to heal, specially if there is calcinosis, and can be complicated by soft tissue infections, wet and dry necrosis, eschar, underlying tissue exposure, gangrene, osteomyelitis, and amputation,” Tatiana Nevskaya, MD, PhD, of the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, in Ontario, and colleagues wrote … read more