How often do you perform nailfold capillaroscopy in your clinical practice in patients with CTD?

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Rheumatology · North Bristol NHS Trust

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In an ideal world, I would perform nailfold cap on all patients (to gain prognostic information on the extent of disease progression), but this is not feasible, and nailfold cap is not always necessary from a diagnostic perspective if the diagnosis is already clear. It is most useful when the diagno...

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Rheumatology · Rheumatology Associates of Long Island

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I do it in all patients presenting to the office with Raynaud's at the first visit and often repeat in patients with features suspicious of CVDZ at follow-up visits.

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