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However, when a person has mixed connective tissue disorder, the symptoms aren't as severe or as widespread as they would be if the person has lupus, scleroderma, rheumatoid arthritis or other rheumatic disorder. This condition has many symptoms, including: 1  Pain in two or more joints. 2  Almost all persons with mixed connective tissue disease have this symptom. 3  Three out of four persons with the condition have arthritis and may have the swollen, deformed joints of rheumatoid arthritis. 4  Raynaud's phenomenon.
Several factors, however, suggest that mixed connective tissue disease is a distinct disorder in its own right. These include symptoms shared by several rheumatic conditions, the presence of certain antibodies, abnormalities in the system that regulates the body's immune response and frequent pulmonary hypertension.