Digital ulcers predict a worse disease course in patients with systemic sclerosis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 681-686

  Mihai, Carina ^a   Landewé, Robert ^b   Van Der Heijde, Désirée ^c   Walker, Ulrich A ^d   Constantin, Paul I ^a   Gherghe, Ana Maria ^a   Ionescu, Ruxandra ^a   Rednic, Simona ^e   Allanore, Yannick ^f   Avouac, Jérôme ^f   Czirják, László ^g   Hachulla, Eric ^h   Riemekasten, Gabriela ⁱ   Cozzi, Franco ^j   Airò, Paolo ^k   Cutolo, Maurizio ^l   Mueller Ladner, Ulf ^m   Matucci Cerinic, Marco ⁿ   Launay, David ^o   Dobrota, Rucsandra ^o   Sfrent Cornateanu, Roxana ^o   Zingarelli, Stefania ^o   Pigatto, Erika ^o   Cuomo, Giovanna ^o   Caramaschi, Paola ^o   Ananieva, Lidia ^o   Ullman, Susanne ^o   Iversen, Line ^o   Gurman, Alexandra Balbir ^o   Braun Moscovici, Yolanda ^o   Carreira, Patricia E ^o   Joven, Beatriz E ^o   Minier, Tünde ^o   Guiducci, Serena ^o   Bellando Randone, Silvia ^o   Pellerito, Raffaele ^o   Hunzelmann, Nicolas ^o   Tarner, Ingo H ^o   Radominski, Sebastião Cezar ^o   De Souza Müller, Carolina ^o   Iannone, Florenzo ^o   Henes, Jörg ^o   Bancel, Dominique Farge ^o   Damjanov, Nemanja ^o   Ostojic, Predrag ^o   Pozzi, Maria Rosa ^o   Hesselstrand, Roger ^o   Denton, Christopher ^o   Krasowska, Dorota ^o   Tikly, Mohammed ^o   Riccieri, Valeria ^o   Cantatore, Francesco Paolo ^o   Corrado, Ada ^o   Da Silva, José Antonio Pereira ^o   Salvador, Maria João ^o   Tyndall, Alan ^o   Gabrielli, Armando ^o   Distler, Oliver ^o   Jordan, Suzan ^o   Heitmann, Stefan ^o   Burkhardt, Harald ^o   Himsel, Andrea ^o   Rozman, Blaz ^o   Smith, Vanessa ^o   Keyser, Filip De ^o   Kalitena, Dusanka Martinovic ^o   Radic, Mislav ^o   Filipescu, Ileana ^o   Petcu, Ana ^o   Vlachoyiannopoulos, Panayiotis ^o   Kucharz, Eugene J ^o   Widuchowska, Malgorzata ^o   Kopec Medrek, Magdalena ^o   Kotulska, Anna ^o   Szücs, Gabriella ^o   Stankovic, Aleksandra ^o   Stamenkovic, Bojana ^o   Selmi, Carlo Francesco ^o   Santis, Maria De ^o   Marasini, Bianca ^o   Coleiro, Bernard ^o   Santamaria, Vera Ortiz ^o   Westhovens, René ^o   Becvár, Radim ^o   Novak, Srdan ^o   Engelhart, Merete ^o   Meroni, Pierluigi ^o   Ingegnoli, Francesca ^o   Zeni, Silvana ^o   Sulli, Alberto ^o   Distler, Jörg ^o   Yavuz, Sule ^o   Montecucco, Carlomaurizio ^o   Eyerich, Kilian ^o   Krummel Lorenz, Brigitte ^o   Zenone, Thierry ^o   Midtvedt, Øyvind ^o   Chizzolini, Carlo ^o   Seidel, Matthias ^o   Oleszowsky, Mara ^o   Üprus, Maria ^o   Opriş, Daniela ^o   Groseanu, Laura ^o   Bielecka, Otylia Kowal ^o   Antonio, Zea Mendoza ^o   Szechinski, Jacek ^o   Morovic Vergles, Jadranka ^o   Scorza, Raffaella ^o   Puppo, Francesco ^o   Mathieu, Alessandro ^o   Anic, Branimir ^o   Stork, Jiri ^o   Stebbings, Simon ^o   Inanc, Murat ^o   Hasler, Paul ^o   Von Mühlen, Carlos Alberto ^o   Aringer, Martin ^o   Popa, Sergei ^o   Li, Mengtao ^o   Rosato, Edoardo ^o   more..

^a CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^b Zuyderland Medical Centre   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e IULIU HATIEGANU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^h LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

ⁱ CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^k SPEDALI CIVILI   (Italy)

^l UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^m JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^o University of Florence ^*

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGER ULCER; GENDER; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HISTORY OF DIGITAL ULCER; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMPLICATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FINGER; HAND DERMATOSES; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; KIDNEY DISEASES; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN ULCER; VITAL CAPACITY;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FINGERS; HAND DERMATOSES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; KIDNEY DISEASES; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PULMONARY DIFFUSING CAPACITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SKIN ULCER; STROKE VOLUME; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 84930163748     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2014-205897     Document Type: Article

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