Rheumatology · Rheumatology / Autoimmune connective tissue disease
CREST syndrome
also: Limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis
Calcinosis, Raynaud phenomenon, esophageal dysmotility, sclerodactyly and telangiectasia.
- Specialty
- Rheumatology
- Subspecialty
- Rheumatology / Autoimmune connective tissue disease
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected, more common; Children: rare
- Gene(s) involved
- HLA-DQA1, HLA-DRB1*01
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis
Etiology & mechanism
Anticentromere antibody associated limited scleroderma.
Gene(s) involved (2)
Symptoms & signs (6)
In plain terms, someone with CREST syndrome may experience the following — click any to explore related syndromes:
Same gene(s)
Other syndromes that involve one of this syndrome's genes.
Overlapping symptoms
Other syndromes that share symptoms with this one.
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Shares symptoms with
1 shared
Antisynthetase syndrome
raynaud phenomenon
1 shared
Ataxia-telangiectasia
telangiectasia
1 shared
Cobalamin C syndrome
pulmonary hypertension
1 shared
Meconium aspiration syndrome
pulmonary hypertension
1 shared
Scimitar syndrome
pulmonary hypertension
1 shared
Sjögren syndrome
raynaud phenomenon
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