Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation

Table 3 Comparison between scleroderma patients with and without enthesitis detected by ultrasound according to various nailfold capillaroscopic findings

From: Ultrasonographic detection of enthesitis and its relation to clinical manifestations among Egyptian systemic sclerosis patients

	SSc patients (n = 40)
Parameter	All (n = 40)	With enthesitis (n = 25)	Without (n = 15)	P
Capillary density	7.75 ± 2.43	6.73 ± 2.33	8.77 ± 2.63	0.015*
Capillary length	190.64 ± 36.21	185.44 ± 35.19	193.70 ± 37.23	0.486
Capillary width	41.21 ± 7.85	51.51 ± 9.79	36.11 ± 6.83	< 0.001**
Capillary hemorrhage	15 (37.5%)	11 (44.0%)	4 (26.7%)	0.280
*Capillary shape*
Normal shape	8 (20.0%)	1 (4.0%)	7 (46.7%)	0.002*
Dilated mega-capillaries	28 (70.0%)	22 (88.0%)	6 (40.0%)	0.002*
Tortuous capillaries	4 (10.0%)	2 (8.0%)	2 (13.3%)	0.593
Sub-capillary venous plexus	27 (67.5%)	18 (72.0%)	9 (60.0%)	0.439

Using: =, independent sample t test; ≠, Mann-Whitney test; ▲, Fisher’s exact; P > 0.05 NS; *P ≤ 0.05 S, **P ≤ 0.001 HS; SSc, systemic sclerosis

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