Welcome to episode 47 of Mogil’s Mobcast. Today’s guest is Dr. Tracy Frech. Dr. Frech is a rheumatologist. Her primary research and clinical care goals are to increase early diagnosis and improve health care delivery to the systemic sclerosis (SSc) patient population. Today we talk about the digestive tract in which 95% of systemic scleroderma patients have issues with. We discuss all the gastrointestinal manifestations that happen with systemic scleroderma patients. This includes dry mouth, GERD, Gastroparesis, Fecal Incontinence/Diarrhea, signs for each, how to diagnose and treat each of the manifestations.
