Survival and Predictors of Mortality in Systemic Sclerosis‐Associated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Outcomes From the Pulmonary Hypertension Assessment and Recognition of Outcomes in Scleroderma Registry

• Published in: Arthritis Care & Research Vol. 66; no. 3; pp. 489 - 495
• Main Authors: Chung, Lorinda, Domsic, Robyn T., Lingala, Bharathi, Alkassab, Firas, Bolster, Marcy, Csuka, M. E., Derk, Chris, Fischer, Aryeh, Frech, Tracy, Furst, Daniel E., Gomberg‐Maitland, Mardi, Hinchcliff, Monique, Hsu, Vivien, Hummers, Laura K., Khanna, Dinesh, Medsger, Thomas A., Molitor, Jerry A., Preston, Ioana R., Schiopu, Elena, Shapiro, Lee, Silver, Richard, Simms, Robert, Varga, John, Gordon, Jessica K., Steen, Virginia D.
• Format: Book Review Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.03.2014
• Subjects: Aged; Familial Primary Pulmonary Hypertension; Female; Humans; Hypertension, Pulmonary - drug therapy; Hypertension, Pulmonary - etiology; Hypertension, Pulmonary - mortality; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Middle Aged; Prospective Studies; Registries; Scleroderma, Systemic - complications; United States - epidemiology; United States

Objective To assess cumulative survival rates and identify independent predictors of mortality in patients with incident systemic sclerosis (SSc)–associated pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) who had undergone routine screening for PAH at SSc centers in the US. Methods The Pulmonary Hypertension...