Abstracts tagged "forced vital capacity and systemic sclerosis"

Abstract Number: 2616 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Forced Vital Capacity Trajectories for Systemic Sclerosis-associated Interstitial Lung Disease—Analysis from the University of Michigan Scleroderma Cohort
Mirette Habib¹, Sara Jaafar ¹, Annie Park ¹, Suiyuan Huang ¹, Wen Ye ¹, Vivek Nagaraja ¹, Eric White ¹, Kevin Flaherty ² and Dinesh Khanna ³, ¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, Ann Arbor
Background/Purpose: Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients. Forced Vital Capacity (FVC, recorded as %…