Background Systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease (ILD) carries a high
mortality risk; expert guidance is required to aid early recognition and treatment. We aimed to …

Background. The epidemiological and clinical characteristics of solid organ transplant (SOT)
patients during the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) …

Cardiac involvement (CI) is a known complication of SSc associated with increased mortality.
Our objective was to describe a cohort of patients with SSc and CI and to assess the …

Objective Emerging data have shown an increased risk of malignancy among patients
diagnosed with systemic sclerosis (SSc) so identification of risk factors linking both disorders …

Objective Digital ulcers (DU) are the most common vascular complication of systemic sclerosis
(SSc). We compared the characteristics between patients with prior or current DU with …

The objective of the study is to determine the importance of the mode of onset as prognostic
factor in systemic sclerosis (SSc). Data were collected from the Spanish Scleroderma …

Objective. The low overall prevalence of systemic sclerosis (SSc) and the low proportion of
male patients have resulted in a scarcity of studies assessing sex differences in Ssc patients, …

Aim Patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) are at increased risk of cancer, a growing cause
of non–SSc-related death among these patients. We analyzed the increased cancer risk …

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare chronic disease of unknown etiology characterized by
vascular abnormalities and fibrosis involving the skin and internal organs, especially the …

Background To determine whether lung involvement is related to microvascular perturbations,
nailfold videocapillaroscopy (NVC) was performed in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc…