Pulmonary survival study in 91 patients with systemic sclerosis

• Published in: Rheumatology international Vol. 31; no. 12; pp. 1577 - 1582
• Main Authors: Poormoghim, Hadi, Lakeh, Maziar Moradi, Mohammadipour, Mastoureh, Talehy-Moineddin, Shima, Sodagari, Faezeh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 01.12.2011; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Cohort Studies; Echocardiography; Familial Primary Pulmonary Hypertension; Female; Humans; Hypertension, Pulmonary - diagnostic imaging; Hypertension, Pulmonary - etiology; Hypertension, Pulmonary - mortality; Iran - epidemiology; Lung Diseases, Interstitial - diagnostic imaging; Lung Diseases, Interstitial - etiology; Lung Diseases, Interstitial - mortality; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Original Article; Pulmonary Fibrosis - diagnosis; Pulmonary Fibrosis - etiology; Pulmonary Fibrosis - mortality; Respiratory Function Tests; Rheumatology; Scleroderma, Systemic - complications; Scleroderma, Systemic - mortality; Smoking - epidemiology; Survival Rate; Tomography, X-Ray Computed - methods; Pulmonary arterial hypertension, survival analysis; Interstitial lung disease; Systemic sclerosis

In systemic sclerosis (SSc), major determinant of morbidity and mortality is pulmonary complication including pulmonary interstitial lung disease (ILD) and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). In this study, the natural course of pulmonary involvement in SSc patients was investigated. This was a h...