Abstracts tagged "RCT and scleroderma"

Abstract Number: 2999 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Development of a Composite Index for Clinical Trials in Early Diffuse Cutaneous Systemic sclerosis—the Combined Response Index in Systemic Sclerosis
Dinesh Khanna¹, Veronica Berrocal², Edward Giannini³, Maureen Mayes⁴, Peter A. Merkel⁵, Jeffrey Siegel⁶, James R. Seibold⁷, Murray Baron⁸, Philip J. Clements⁹, Yannick Allanore¹⁰, Virginia D. Steen¹¹, Christopher P. Denton¹², Oliver Distler¹³, Sindhu R. Johnson¹⁴, Marco Matucci-Cerinic¹⁵, Lazlo Czirjak¹⁶, Janet E. Pope¹⁷, Susanna Proudman¹⁸, Weng Kee Wong¹⁹, Athol U. Wells²⁰ and Daniel E. Furst⁹, ¹University of Michigan Scleroderma Program, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Department of Biostatistics- School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Ped Rheum/Pav 2-129, Childrens Hosp Med Ctr, Cincinnati, OH, ⁴Internal Medicine/Rheumatology, University of TX Health Science Center -Houston, Houston, TX, ⁵Vasculitis Center, E5, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ⁶Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, ⁷Scleroderma Research Consultants LLC, Avon, CT, ⁸Pavillion A, Rm 216, Lady David Institute for Medical Research and Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁹University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ¹⁰Department of Rheumatology, University Paris Descartes and Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, ¹¹Department of Rheumatology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, ¹²Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, UCL Medical School Royal Free Campus, London, United Kingdom, ¹³Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ¹⁴Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network Pulmonary Hypertension Programme, Toronto General Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁵Dept of Medicine/Div of Rheum, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, ¹⁶Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary, ¹⁷Medicine, Western University, London, ON, Canada, ¹⁸Rheumatology Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia, ¹⁹Biostatistics, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, ²⁰Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Department of Radiology, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Diffuse systemic sclerosis (dcSSc) is a multisystem disease that involves skin and internal organs. Our objective was to develop a composite response index in…