Na+ deposition in the fibrotic skin of systemic sclerosis patients detected by 23Na-magnetic resonance imaging

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Nephrology and Hypertension.
• ² Department of Internal Medicine 3 and Institute for Clinical Immunology.
• ³ Department of Radiology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen.
• ⁴ Institute of Clinical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Regensburg, Regensburg.
• ⁵ Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation between the Charité Medical Faculty and the Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁶ Department of Clinical Pharmocology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.