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Abstract Number: PP15 • ACR Convergence 2024
Breathing Mindfully and How to Control Anxiety in Lupus Patients
Amanda Greene, Lupus Research Alliance, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: For over four decades, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus has impacted my Quality of Life.. I was diagnosed in 1983- my entire life was changed. I…
Abstract Number: PP12 • ACR Convergence 2024
Healing Together: The Role of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) -Only Chronic Illness Spaces in Comprehensive Care
Sarah Shaw and JP Summers, Global Healthy Living Foundation, Upper Nyack, NY
Background/Purpose: As someone from the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) community living with rheumatic conditions, I have experienced firsthand many challenges that people…
Abstract Number: 2646 • ACR Convergence 2024
Rare Variants in the IL1RAP Gene Implicate the IL-1 Signaling Pathway in the Pathogenesis of Systemic Sclerosis in African and European Ancestries
Yosuke Kunishita¹, Urvashi Kaundal², Martin Kerick³, Ryan Routsong⁴, Justin Lack⁴, Ami Shah⁵, Maureen Mayes⁶, Daniel Shriner⁷, Ayo P. Doumatey⁷, Amy Bentley⁷, Robyn Domsic⁸, Thomas Medsger, Jr⁹, Paula Ramos¹⁰, Richard Silver¹¹, Virginia Steen¹², John Varga¹³, Vivien Hsu¹⁴, Lesley Ann Saketkoo¹⁵, Dinesh Khanna¹³, Elena Schiopu¹⁶, Jessica Gordon¹⁷, Lindsey Criswell¹⁸, Heather Gladue¹⁹, Chris Derk²⁰, Elana Bernstein²¹, S. Louis Bridges¹⁷, Victoria Shanmugam²², Lorinda Chung²³, Suzanne Kafaja²⁴, Reem Jan²⁵, Marcin Trojanowski²⁶, Avram Goldberg²⁷, Benjamin Korman²⁸, James W. Thomas²⁹, Elaine Remmers³⁰, Adebowale Adeyemo⁷, Charles Rotimi⁷, Fredrick Wigley³¹, Francesco Boin³², Javier Martin³, Daniel Kastner³³ and Pravitt Gourh³⁴, ¹Scleroderma Genomics and Health Disparities Unit, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ²Scleroderma Genomics and Health Disparities Unit, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Chevy Chase, MD, ³Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina ‘López-Neyra’, CSIC, PTS Granada, Spain, Granada, Spain, ⁴Integrated Data Sciences Section, Research Technologies Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University, Ellicott City, MD, ⁶UTHealth Houston Division of Rheumatology, Houston, TX, ⁷Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ⁸Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁹Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Verona, PA, ¹⁰Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ¹²Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, ¹³University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹⁴Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Division, Rutgers-RWJ Medical School, South Plainfield, NJ, ¹⁵New Orleans Scleroderma and Sarcoidosis Patient Care and Research Center, Louisiana State University and Tulane University Medical Schools, New Orleans, LA, ¹⁶Division of Rheumatology, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, Martinez, GA, ¹⁷Division of Rheumatology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, ¹⁸Genomics of Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease Section, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, Bethesda, MD, ¹⁹Arthritis & Osteoporosis Consultants of the Carolinas, Charlotte, NC, ²⁰Division of Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, ²²Office of Autoimmune Disease Research, Office of Research on Women's Health, National Institutes of Health, Great Falls, VA, ²³Stanford University, Woodside, CA, ²⁴Division of Rheumatology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ²⁵Section of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²⁶Department of Rheumatology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ²⁷NYU Langone Health - NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, Lake Success, NY, ²⁸University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, ²⁹NIH Intramural Sequencing Center, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ³⁰Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ³¹Johns Hopkins University, Division of Rheumatology, Baltimore, MD, Baltimore, MD, ³²Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ³³National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, ³⁴National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease characterized by systemic inflammation and fibrosis. Interleukin-1 receptor accessory protein (IL1RAP) is a co-receptor for the Interleukin-1…
Abstract Number: 2658 • ACR Convergence 2024
Hypovitaminosis D in Lupus Nephitis
Alicia Yupe¹, Emma Puron Gonzalez², Esteban Salatino³, Jessica Santana⁴, Montserrat Ochoa⁴, Rosa Elena Cervantes-Ramirez⁵, Eli Marisol Saldaña⁶, gabriel Calderon⁷, Brissia Ceniceros⁸, Ulices de la Cruz⁹, Monica Meza¹⁰ and Sergio Cerpa Cruz⁶, ¹Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala., Guatemala, Guatemala, ²UDEM/ITESM, San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico, ³Faculty of Medical Sciences, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala., Guatemala, GU, ⁴Hospital Civil "Fray Antonio Alcalde", Guadalajara, Mexico, ⁵Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación "Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra", Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico, ⁶Hospital Civil de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico, ⁷Hospital Civil de Guadalajara, Monterrey, Mexico, ⁸Hospital Civil de Guadalajara, Torreón, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico, ⁹Hospital Civil "Fray Antonio Alcalde", Guadalajara, ¹⁰Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la SAlud, Guadalajara
Background/Purpose: The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency is higher in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) compared to the healthy population, and recent studies have…
Abstract Number: 2618 • ACR Convergence 2024
Population Health Management for Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in the Pediatric Rheumatology Care and Outcomes Improvement Network
Julia Harris¹, Catherine Bingham², Sheetal Vora³, Cagri Yildirim-Toruner⁴, Kerry Ferraro⁵, Erik Friedrichsen⁶, Danielle Bullock⁷, Jon Burnham⁸, Tzielan Lee⁹, Daniel Lovell¹⁰, Ted Wimmel¹¹, Delores Mincarelli¹¹, Mayur Patil¹², Magen Phillips¹¹ and Esi Morgan¹³, ¹Children's Mercy Kansas City, Overland Park, KS, ²Penn State Children’s Hospital, Hershey, ³Atrium Health Levine Children's Hospital, Charlotte, NC, ⁴Baylor College of Medicine/ Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, ⁵JIA parent and CHOP volunteer, Lower Gwynedd, PA, ⁶Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, ⁷M Health Fairview Masonic Children’s Hospital, Minneapolis, ⁸Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ⁹Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, ¹⁰Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ¹¹Hive Networks, Newport, ¹²VSquare Infotech Inc, Edison, NJ, ¹³Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: The Pediatric Rheumatology Care and Outcomes Improvement Network (PR-COIN) is a learning health network with a vision that children with rheumatic disease will have…
Abstract Number: 2629 • ACR Convergence 2024
Deciphering Salivary Gland Inflammation in Sjögren’s Syndrome Reveals Shared and Autoantibody-Specific Immune Cell Heterogeneity
Jun Inamo¹, Masaru Takeshita², Katsuya Suzuki², Kazuyuki Tsunoda², Satoshi Usuda², Junko Kuramoto², Tsutomu Takeuchi³ and Yuko Kaneko⁴, ¹University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, ²Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, ³Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, JP, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by progressive immune cell-mediated destruction of the exocrine glands. SS patients have distinct clinical phenotypes based…
Abstract Number: 2639 • ACR Convergence 2024
Exploring Weight Trends in Psoriatic Arthritis: Unraveling Effects of Drugs
Pankti Mehta¹, Fadi Kharouf², Shangyi Gao³, Dafna Gladman⁴ and Vinod Chandran¹, ¹University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Previous studies have reported weight gain in Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) with biologics like TNF inhibitors (i). In contrast, no significant increase in body weight…
Abstract Number: 2649 • ACR Convergence 2024
Defining Clinical Subgroups of Patients with Relapsing Polychondritis: A Latent Class and Decision Tree Analysis in Two Independent Prospective Cohorts
Shubhasree Banerjee¹, Carol McAlear², Peter Merkel³, Peter Grayson⁴ and Marcela Ferrada⁵, ¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Chevy Chase, MD, ⁵University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Background/Purpose: Lack of awareness and disease heterogeneity are common factors associated with diagnosis delay in patients with Relapsing polychondriytis (RP). Using latent class analysis (LCA),…
Abstract Number: 2625 • ACR Convergence 2024
Brain Injury Markers Correlate with Impaired Executive Function and Disease Activity in Children with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Oscar Mwizerwa¹, Justine Ledochowski², Tala El Tal³, Ganesh Ramanathan², Sarah Mossad⁴, Ibrahim Mohamed⁵, Joanna Law⁶, Lawrence Ng², Paris Moaf², Asha Jeyanathan¹, Adrienne Davis⁷, Ann Yeh², Linda Hiraki², Deborah Levy², Zahi Touma⁸, Joan Wither⁹, Busi Zapparoli¹⁰, Ashley Danguecan¹¹ and Andrea Knight¹², ¹The Hospital for Sick Children, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children, Neurosciences and Mental Health, Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³The Hospital For Sick Children & Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), Ottawa, ON, The Hospital for Sick Children, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵The Hospital for Sick Children, Brampton, ON, Canada, ⁶The Hospital for Sick Children, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁷Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁸University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁹University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁰The Hospital for Sick Children, Etobicoke, ON, Canada, ¹¹The Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹²Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children; Neurosciences and Mental Health, SickKids Research Institute; Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Patients with childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE) commonly experience impaired executive function (EF), and attribution to neuropsychiatric lupus (NPSLE) is challenging. Serum markers of…
Abstract Number: 2660 • ACR Convergence 2024
Developing Predictive Models for the Diagnosis of VEXAS Syndrome
Daniel Montes¹, Andrew C. Hanson², Hannah Langenfeld¹, Cynthia Crowson¹, Mrinal Patnaik¹, Ronald Go¹, Alexander Hines¹, Kambiz Kalantari¹, Yael Kusne³, Terra Lasho², Abhishek Mangaonkar¹, Horatiu Olteanu¹, Kaaren Reichard¹, Megan Sullivan⁴, David Viswanatha¹, Kenneth Warrington¹ and Matthew Koster¹, ¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, ³Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, ⁴Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ
Background/Purpose: VEXAS (Vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, Autoinflammatory, Somatic) syndrome is a recently identified autoinflammatory disorder with a heterogenous presentation. Patients may experience delays in diagnosis…
Abstract Number: 2606 • ACR Convergence 2024
Changes in Long-term GC Use Among Older Adults After New Diagnosis of Late-onset Rheumatoid Arthritis
Jiha Lee¹, Jonathan Martindale¹, Beth Wallace², Namrata Singh³, Una Makris⁴ and Julie Bynum¹, ¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Michigan Medicine, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, ³University of Washington, Bellevue, WA, ⁴UT Southwestern Medical Center and Dallas VA, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: Older adults with late-onset rheumatoid arthritis (LORA) receive less disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs), which is the standard of care. In contrast, long-term glucocorticoid (GC)…
Abstract Number: 2453 • ACR Convergence 2024
Gastrointestinal Symptom Severity and Intestinal Permeability in Systemic Sclerosis: A Single Center Prospective Study
Elvira Lesmana¹, Ashley Keehn², Anukul Karn³, Andrea Pauly⁴, Margaret Breen-Lyles², Adam L Edwinson², Madhusudan Grover⁵ and Ashima Makol⁵, ¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, New York, NY, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, Rochester, ³Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, Farmington Hills, MI, ⁴Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN, ⁵Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) is a complex, heterogeneous, multisystem autoimmune disease with high morbidity and mortality. Gastrointestinal symptoms impact more than 90% of SSc patients,…
Abstract Number: 2640 • ACR Convergence 2024
Comparative Safety and Use of Non-conventional Combination Targeted Therapy in Adults with Psoriatic Arthritis
Alexander Wu¹, Arianna Zhang², Yujia Guo¹, Jialing Liu¹, Donghan Yang¹, Lourdes Perez Chada³, Alexis Ogdie⁴, Jose Scher⁵ and Joseph Merola⁶, ¹University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Harvard Medical School, Wayland, MA, ⁴Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁶UT Southwestern Medical Center, Newton, MA
Background/Purpose: Psoriatic arthritis is a chronic systemic inflammatory disorder with significant impacts on health and life quality. Achieving good disease control in psoriatic arthritis (PsA)…
Abstract Number: 2647 • ACR Convergence 2024
Clinical Characteristics , Treatment Outcomes and Predictors of Mortality in a DADA2 Cohort of 101 Patients
Aman Sharma¹, Niladri Bhowmick², shankar naidu³, Varun Dhir⁴, Prateek Bhatia³, Vishal Sharma³, sagar Bhattad⁵, Chengappa Kavadichanda⁶, Vikas Gupta⁷, Durga P Misra⁸, Sourabh Malviya⁹, DUDAM RAJKIRAN¹⁰, Banwari Sharma¹¹, John Mathew¹², Sathish Kumar¹³, Rajesh Bhojwani¹⁴, Aadhaar Dhooria¹⁵, Avinash Jain¹⁶, Pankaj Gupta¹⁷, Vikas Agarwal⁸, Rudrarpan Chatterjee¹⁸, Kusum Sharma¹⁹, Manphool Singhal¹⁹, Harjeet Singh¹⁹, Alpana Parmar²⁰, Padmanbha Shenoy²¹, Ritambhra Nada¹⁹, Ranjana Minz¹⁹, Archana Khan²², Sodality Sutnga²², Minu Singh¹⁹, Kaushik Bhojani²³, MAHABALESHWAR MAMADAPUR²⁴, Manesh Manoj²⁵, Puja Srivastava²⁶, Adarsh MB²⁷, Kavita Krishna²⁸, Ramesh Jois²⁹, Vir Singh Negi³⁰, Amita Aggarwal³¹, sanjay jain¹⁹, Raju Khubchandani³², Chip Chambers³³ and Pui Lee³⁴, ¹PGIMER, Chandigarh, India, Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India, ²Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research , Chandigarh, Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India, ³PGIMER, Chandigarh, India, Chandigarh, India, ⁴PGIMER, CHD, INDIA, CHANDIGARH, India, ⁵2Aster CMI Hospital, Bengaluru, India, Bengaluru, ⁶Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, pondicherry, Puducherry, India, ⁷Fortis Hospital, Ludhiana, India, Ludhiana, ⁸Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, ⁹Medanta superspeciality hospital, Indore, India, ¹⁰Hyderabad Rheumatology Centre, Hyderabad, India, HYDERABAD, Andhra Pradesh, India, ¹¹Niramaya Healthcare, Jaipur, India, Jaipur, India, ¹²Christian Medical college , Vellore , India, Vellore, India, ¹³CMC, Vellore, Vellore, India, ¹⁴Santokba Durlabhji Memorial Hospital, Jaipur, India, Jaipur, India, ¹⁵Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital Jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, ¹⁶Sawai Man Singh Hospital, Lucknow, Rajasthan, India, ¹⁷PGIMER, Chandigarh, India, Chandigarh, ¹⁸Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow., Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, ¹⁹PGIMER, Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India, ²⁰Rheumatology Clinic, Surat, India, Surat, India, ²¹Center for arthritis and rheumatims excellence ( CARE, Cochin, Kerala, India, ²²SRCC Children’s Hospital, Mumbai, India, Mumbai, India, ²³Fortis Hospital, Mumbai, Mumbai, India, ²⁴JSS MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL,JSSAHER, Mysore, Karnataka, India, ²⁵AKG Memorial Cooperative Hospital Kannur, Nileshwar, Kerala, India, ²⁶STAR Rheumatology Clinics, Ahmedabad, India, Ahmedabad, India, ²⁷Government Medical College, Kozhikode, India, Kozhikode, India, ²⁸Bharati Vidyapeeth Medical College, Pune, Pune, India, ²⁹Manipal Hospital ,Rheumatology, Millers Road, Bengaluru, India, Bengaluru, India, ³⁰AIIMS, Bilaspur, Puducherry, Puducherry, India, ³¹Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, ³²SRCC Childrens Hospital, Mumbai, India, ³³Vanderbilt University Medical Center & DADA2 Foundation, Franklin, TN, ³⁴Boston Children's Hospital, Newton, MA
Background/Purpose: Deficiency of adenosine deaminase 2 (DADA2) is a rare and potentially life threatening monogenic disorder characterized by systemic vasculitis, bone marrow failure, and immunodeficiency.…
Abstract Number: 2451 • ACR Convergence 2024
Prognostic Value of Functional Outcomes in a Italian Multicentric Cohort of Early SSc-ILD Patients
Chiara Bellocchi¹, Alessandro Santaniello², Silvia Bosello³, Enrico De Lorenzis⁴, Gerlando Natalello⁵, Nicoletta Del Papa⁶, Silvia Cavalli⁷, Devis Benfaremo⁸, Giacomo De Luca⁹, Corrado Campochiaro¹⁰, Lorenzo Cavagna¹¹, Veronica Codullo¹², Francesco Bonomi¹³, gaia Montanelli¹⁴, Adriana Severino¹⁵, Monica Caronni², Martina Iacubino¹⁶, Barbara Vigone², Silvia Bellando-Randone¹⁷, Carlomaurizio Montecucco¹⁸, Marco Matucci-Cerinic¹⁹, Lorenzo Dagna²⁰, Gianluca Moroncini⁸, Roberto Caporali²¹ and Lorenzo Beretta²², ¹Università degli Studi di Milano, IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, Milano, Italy, ²Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Policlinico di Milano, MILANO, Italy, ³FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI- IRCCS, Rome, Rome, Italy, ⁴Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Roma, Rome, Italy, ⁵Division of Rheumatology - Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli, Rome, Rome, Italy, ⁶ASST Centro Specialistico Ortopedico Traumatologico Gaetano Pini-CTO, Milano, Milan, Italy, ⁷University of Milan, Milan, Milan, Italy, ⁸Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy, ⁹Vita-Salute San Raffaele University & IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Milan, Italy, ¹⁰IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital. Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Milan, Italy, ¹¹University of Pavia and Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Hospital of Pavia, Pavia, Pavia, Italy, ¹²Division of Rheumatology - Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy, Pavia, Lombardia, Italy, ¹³Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Florence, Italy, ¹⁴Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Policlinico di Milano, Milan, Italy, ¹⁵Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Policlinico di Milano, Milan, Milan, Italy, ¹⁶Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy, ¹⁷University of Florence, Florence, Florence, Italy, ¹⁸IRCCS policlinico S. Matteo foundation, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, ¹⁹University San Raffaele Milano, Milano, Milan, Italy, ²⁰Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano, Italy, ²¹Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, and Department of Rheumatology and Medical Sciences, ASST Gaetano Pini-CTO, Milan, Italy, ²²Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di MIlano, Milan, Milan, Italy
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is the leading cause of mortality in systemic sclerosis (SSc). Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) can serve as useful surrogate measures…

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