and one of the defining features is having interstitial lung disease. Therefore, if you have systemic sclerosis, you have about an 80 percent chance of developing some type of lung interstitial ...

[2] Systemic sclerosis (SSc) sine scleroderma (ssSSc ... Nevertheless, ssSSc patients showed a greater incidence of lung involvement (e.g., dyspnea with mild extension at rest, reduced carbon ...

Immunosuppression appears to reduce mortality among people with systemic sclerosis with pulmonary arterial hypertension but ...

analysis to decipher skin involvement and treatment response in patients with systemic sclerosis. Systemic sclerosis (SSc), or scleroderma, is a chronic autoimmune condition characterized by the ...

Systemic sclerosis (SSc ... SSc has traditionally sometimes also been called scleroderma, but strictly speaking, this term refers only to skin involvement. Because non-skin manifestations have ...

Autologous stem cell transplant for patients with diffuse systemic sclerosis (SSc ... of 5 years or less and either lung/kidney involvement or rapidly progressive and extensive skin manifestations ...