Thinking outside the box—The associations with cutaneous involvement and autoantibody status in systemic sclerosis are not always what we expect

• Published in: Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 184 - 189
• Main Authors: Srivastava, Neha, Hudson, Marie, Tatibouet, Solène, Wang, Mianbo, Baron, Murray, Fritzler, Marvin J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.10.2015
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; autoantibodies; Autoantibodies - blood; Female; Humans; Lung Diseases, Interstitial - complications; Lung Diseases, Interstitial - immunology; Male; Middle Aged; Prognosis; Rheumatology; Scleroderma, Diffuse - complications; Scleroderma, Diffuse - immunology; Scleroderma, Systemic - complications; Scleroderma, Systemic - diagnosis; Scleroderma, Systemic - immunology; Scleroderma, Systemic - mortality; Severity of Illness Index; subsets; Survival Rate; Systemic sclerosis; autoantibodies; Systemic sclerosis; subsets

To describe the clinical characteristics and survival of anti-topoisomerase antibody positive (ATA+) limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis (lcSSc) and anti-centromere antibody positive (ACA+) diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (dcSSc) patients in a large, multicenter SSc cohort. Data from subjects...