Skin thickness progression rate: a predictor of mortality and early internal organ involvement in diffuse scleroderma
RT Domsic, T Rodriguez-Reyna, M Lucas… - Annals of the …, 2011 - ard.eular.org
Objective To examine the association of skin thickness progression rate (STPR) with
mortality, and as a predictor of future internal organ involvement in an inception cohort of
diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients. Methods Diffuse cutaneous SSc
patients older than 16 years of age evaluated at the University of Pittsburgh within 2 years of
the first evidence of skin thickening between 1980 and 2005 were eligible. The authors
calculated the STPR on these patients, and examined the relationship of this variable to the …
mortality, and as a predictor of future internal organ involvement in an inception cohort of
diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients. Methods Diffuse cutaneous SSc
patients older than 16 years of age evaluated at the University of Pittsburgh within 2 years of
the first evidence of skin thickening between 1980 and 2005 were eligible. The authors
calculated the STPR on these patients, and examined the relationship of this variable to the …
