Abstracts tagged "quality of life and autologous transplantation"

Abstract Number: 2592 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Longitudinal Changes in Health-related Quality of Life in Systemic Sclerosis Treated with Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Compared to Standard of Care
Nancy Maltez¹, Mathieu Puyade ², Pauline Lansiaux ³, Mianbo Wang ⁴, Murray Baron ⁵, Ines Colmegna ⁶, Dominique Farge ⁷ and Marie Hudson ⁸, ¹The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ²CHU de Poitiers Unité d'Hospitalisation d'Aval, Poitiers Cédex, France, ³Institut de Recherche Saint-Louis, Paris, France, ⁴Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁵Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, ⁶McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁷Hôpital Saint-Louis, AP-HP Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris, Centre de Référence des Maladies Auto-Immunes Systémiques Rares d’Ile-de-France, Filière ‘FAI2R’, Unité de Médecine Interne: Maladies Auto-immunes et Pathologie Vasculaire (UF 04), Université de Paris, EA 3518, Paris, France; Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Paris, France, ⁸Jewish General Hospital, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, and Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Background/Purpose: In severe, early progressive systemic sclerosis (SSc), autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHSCT) allows significant improvements in overall and event free survival. The objectives…