Eosinophilic fasciitis — listed in ICD-10 as M35.4 — is rare enough that most doctors will encounter it once in their career. We gather everything we know here. In plain language, ad-free.
What that code on your chart actually means. What changes from today. What to expect in the first months.
Daily life, meds, diet, rehabilitation, work, relationships. Everything beyond the doctor's office.
A concise overview of diagnostics, lab data, biopsy descriptions, differential criteria.
Epidemiology, list of publications, contact for research collaboration.
Starting steroids takes one prescription. Coming off them takes about a year. This is what the taper looks like in M35.4 — the shape of the curve, what the body does while the dose falls, and which signals suggest the descent has gone too fast.
Step by step, from the referral through the procedure to the report. Why the sample has to reach all the way down to the muscle, why a punch biopsy so often comes back negative, and what a negative result does and does not rule out.
Almost every patient describes the same first hour of the day. Here is what is happening in the tissue while it lasts, how long it typically runs, what patients report shortens it, and the point at which stiffness stops being routine and starts being information.
Freshly diagnosed, under treatment, in remission. Every text is written in a language you can use with your family.
Living with the disease →A digest for the GP who meets M35.4 once in a career. What to notice, where to refer, what tests to order.
Clinical section →Research collaboration, publications, contact with treating centers. We invite you to co-build this knowledge base.
Research and contact →Most information about M35.4 consists of dry encyclopedic entries scattered across the Internet. On the other hand, the most useful ones, like scientific studies, are often not understandable enough for the average patient.
This site is meant to be the opposite – we are entirely dedicated to one disease. We translate complex articles into plain language. We analyze what might have been overlooked by others. And on top of that – you can take part in all this too. No ads, no cookies, no subscriptions.
