Nailfold videocapillaroseopy in internal medicine

Capillaroscopy is an actual inexpensive imaging technique, used to examine, non-invasuvely and safely, the morphology of nailfold dermal papillary capillaries. Many studies agree in the statement that the capiliaroscopy is one of the gold standard methods for non-invasive examination of the microcirculation and it plays an important role in screening in Raynaud's phenomenon and in monitoring of systemic sclerosis and other rheumatologic diseases. There are also many reports on the possible use of nailfold capillaroscopy in the diagnosis and monitoring of many other diseases in internal medicine.